Compilation errors on windows: /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('

[csaund]

Hello,

Background

My ultimate use case is getting to get this discourse parser to run. I am happy editing this third-party python to use the new python package, but I have the same compilation error as issue #48 and I am not sure how much retrofitting would be required to make it work anyway, so I would rather get the java version to compile and not touch this code.

The problem

I am trying to compile this on a windows machine using Cygwin, but upon make it quickly spits out the following:

carolyns@ugrpc /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Discourse_Parser_Dist/bllip-parser-master
$ make
C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/make -C first-stage/PARSE parseIt
/usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/make -C first-stage/PARSE parseIt'
make: *** [PARSE] Error 1

this looks like a bash version issue to me, so my bash version is

carolyns@ugrpc /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Discourse_Parser_Dist/bllip-parser-master
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

and make version is

carolyns@ugrpc /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Discourse_Parser_Dist/bllip-parser-master
$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-pc-mingw32

But I am not sure which version of bash to use as some other sources for similar issues suggest that V3 is the cause of this error.

Also wondering if there's anything I could try related to #46. I have never worked in java and don't suspect it would help as I need to use it in a python project.

since it says line 0, perhaps it thinks the script isn't closed off correctly? But again, since many people seem to use it just fine, I suspect this might just be a versioning issue? FWIW I've looked through parseIt.c and it appears fine.

I am sure it is a very small issue, but I am a bit at a loss as to how to fix it.

Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated!

Other things I've tried

I have also tried compiling with MinGW (on the regular windows power shell) but had the far more ominous error of

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Discourse_Parser_Dist\bllip-parser-master> make
C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/make -C first-stage/PARSE parseIt
make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Program Files (x86)/Discourse_Parser_Dist/bllip-parser-master/first-stage/PARSE'
g++ -MMD -O3 -Wall -ffast-math -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrict-aliasing -fopenmp -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -c extraMain.c
extraMain.c:17:10: fatal error: sys/resource.h: No such file or directory
   17 | #include <sys/resource.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [extraMain.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Program Files (x86)/Discourse_Parser_Dist/bllip-parser-master/first-stage/PARSE'
make: *** [PARSE] Error 2

which the internet seemed to attribute to my development environment, and is why I started trying cygwin in the first place.

[csaund]

Update: I have tried adding SHELL := /bin/bash to the top of the Makefile

although sh --version shows:

$ sh --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

so I was skeptical of that working anyway

[csaund]

Update, it didn't like where make lived (with Program Files (x86) in the path) so I moved make and forced it to use a different path. I get the ominous #include <sys/resource.h> error again, which the internet seems to advice "don't use windows" 🙃