Problem with building BerkeleyDB 4.8.24 with mingw

Question

Good day!
I downloaded db-4.8.24.NC.tar.gz, configured it with
"../dist/configure --disable-shared --disable-replication --enable-mingw --enable-static"
and runned "make"
After some time I received compilation problem like this (see below):
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_failchk.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_failchk.c -o lock_failchk.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_id.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_id.c -o lock_id.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_list.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_list.c -o lock_list.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_method.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_method.c -o lock_method.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_region.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_region.c -o lock_region.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_stat.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_stat.c -o lock_stat.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_timer.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_timer.c -o lock_timer.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../lock/lock_util.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../lock/lock_util.c -o lock_util.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../mutex/mut_alloc.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../mutex/mut_alloc.c -o mut_alloc.o
./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..  -O3  ../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c
libtool: compile: gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -O3 ../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c -o mut_failchk.o
../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c: In function '__mut_failchk':
../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c:53: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of 'dbenv->is_alive'
../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c:53: note: expected 'db_threadid_t' but argument is of type 'int'
../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c:57: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of 'dbenv->thread_id_string'
../dist/../mutex/mut_failchk.c:57: note: expected 'db_threadid_t' but argument is of type 'int'
make: *** [mut_failchk.o] Error 1
sh-3.1$ make
I have MSYS 1.0.11, mingw 5.1.6, GCC 4.4.0

Answer 1

My guess is that the GCC 3.4.5 header files somewhere typedef `pthread_t` as `unsigned long int`.
I am also trying to compile Berkeley DB 4.8.24 with MinGW gcc version 4.4.0, and I received the same error. Fortunately, though, I was able to proceed after changing line 113 of `db.h` in the `build_unix` folder from:
typedef pthread_t db_threadid_t;
to:
typedef u_int32_t db_threadid_t;