error 1 while executing b2.exe

[gyorokpeter]

I'm trying to build yuzu using the instructions for MSYS2. I got up to this command:
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..
But this command seems to fail during the boost build.

I have attached the full output of the command.
output.txt

[Dmitry]

From the output I managed to see that b2 is invoked like this:

b2.exe -q numa=on target-os=windows architecture=x86 address-model=64 binary-format=pe abi=ms --layout=system --user-config=D:/.conan/0ec564/1/source_subfolder/tools/build/user-config.jam -sNO_ZLIB=0 -sNO_BZIP2=0 -sNO_LZMA=1 -sNO_ZSTD=1 boost.locale.icu=off --disable-icu boost.locale.iconv=off --disable-iconv threading=multi visibility=hidden link=static variant=release --with-atomic --with-chrono --with-container --with-context --with-contract --with-coroutine --with-date_time --with-exception --with-fiber --with-filesystem --with-graph --with-iostreams --with-locale --with-log --with-math --with-nowide --with-program_options --with-random --with-regex --with-serialization --with-stacktrace --with-system --with-test --with-thread --with-timer --with-type_erasure --with-wave toolset=gcc define=_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 pch=on  cxxflags="-fPIC" install --prefix=D:/.conan/58c6f8/1 -j16 --abbreviate-paths -d0 --debug-configuration --build-dir="D:/.conan/a86d98/1"

and user-config.jam is

using zlib : 1.2.11 : <include>"D:/Projects/.conan/data/zlib/1.2.11/_/_/package/c6817f477abe7e9a917b102f37dc1fd0c2d95f50/include" <search>"D:/Projects/.conan/data/zlib/1.2.11/_/_/package/c6817f477abe7e9a917b102f37dc1fd0c2d95f50/lib" <name>zlib ;
using bzip2 : 1.0.8 : <include>"D:/Projects/.conan/data/bzip2/1.0.8/_/_/package/0766393ee44f07d2755696e76f200af2c3907715/include" <search>"D:/Projects/.conan/data/bzip2/1.0.8/_/_/package/0766393ee44f07d2755696e76f200af2c3907715/lib" <name>bz2 ;
using "gcc" :  :  D:/msys64/mingw64/bin/g++.exe :
 ;

The issue is that there's no information on what target it failed to build. Conan package for Boost has an option for log verbosity. Please open CMakeLists.txt for the project you're building, find where it sets CONAN_LIB_OPTIONS and add boost:debug_level=2.

[gyorokpeter]

Looks like this one:

libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp:26:42: error: invalid conversion from 'HANDLE' {aka 'void*'} to 'std::thread::native_handle_type' {aka 'long long unsigned int'} [-fpermissive]
   26 |     pin_thread( cpuid, ::GetCurrentThread() );
      |                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
      |                                          |
      |                                          HANDLE {aka void*}
In file included from libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp:7:
./boost/fiber/numa/pin_thread.hpp:26:33: note:   initializing argument 2 of 'void boost::fibers::numa::pin_thread(uint32_t, std::thread::native_handle_type)'
   26 | void pin_thread( std::uint32_t, std::thread::native_handle_type);
      |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ./boost/config.hpp:39,
                 from ./boost/fiber/numa/pin_thread.hpp:13,
                 from libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp:7:
libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp: In function 'void boost::fibers::numa::pin_thread(uint32_t, std::thread::native_handle_type)':
libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp:40:57: error: invalid conversion from 'std::thread::native_handle_type' {aka 'long long unsigned int'} to 'HANDLE' {aka 'void*'} [-fpermissive]
   40 |     if ( BOOST_UNLIKELY( 0 == ::SetThreadGroupAffinity( h, & affinity, nullptr) ) ) {
      |                                                         ^
      |                                                         |
      |                                                         std::thread::native_handle_type {aka long long unsigned int}
./boost/config/compiler/gcc.hpp:96:44: note: in definition of macro 'BOOST_UNLIKELY'
   96 | #define BOOST_UNLIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(x, 0)
      |                                            ^
In file included from D:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winbase.h:30,
                 from D:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/windows.h:70,
                 from libs\fiber\src\numa\windows\pin_thread.cpp:10:
D:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/processtopologyapi.h:22:60: note:   initializing argument 1 of 'WINBOOL SetThreadGroupAffinity(HANDLE, const GROUP_AFFINITY*, PGROUP_AFFINITY)'
   22 |   WINBASEAPI WINBOOL WINAPI SetThreadGroupAffinity (HANDLE hThread, CONST GROUP_AFFINITY *GroupAffinity, PGROUP_AFFINITY PreviousGroupAffinity);
      |                                                     ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~

output.txt

[Oliver Kowalke]

std::thread::native_handle_type == Returns the implementation defined underlying thread handle.
MSDN: std::thread::native_handle_type is defined as a Win32 HANDLE that's cast as void * (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/thread-class?view=msvc-160).

But mingw64/STL implementation does define std::thread::native_handle_type as long long unsigned int which is false as the Microsoft documentation states.

So mingw64/your STL implementation has to be fixed.

[gyorokpeter]

Just to confirm, am I doing this right?
Currently thread looks like this:

typedef __gthread_t native_handle_type;

And there are two different files where __gthread_t is defined: bits/gthr-default.h and gthr-posix.h. In both this is defined as

typedef pthread_t __gthread_t;

pthread_t is defined in pthread.h:

typedef uintptr_t pthread_t

Should I change this to:

typedef void* pthread_t;

[Dmitry]

It's not something you need to change. It's something MinGW devs need to change. Alternatively, maybe yuzu devs know how to handle this issue.

[Oliver Kowalke]

AFAIK mingw is a port of gcc to Windows. gcc has its origin on POSIX systems.
Function SetThreadGroupAffinity() used in boost.fiber is a function of the Windows native API. It might be that mingw can not be used together with parts of the Windows native API because of some incompatibilities.