Trying to compile Asterisk under Windows with cygwin, unable to find libuuid - c

Question

I want to build Asterisk PBX under Windows, it seems to be possible by using cygwin.
The configure script complains about not finding the uuid_generate_random method in the uuid library.
So I tried to create a little test program :
#include <uuid/uuid.h>
int main ()
{
uuid_t out;
uuid_generate_random(out);
return 0;
}
This program is compiled using this command : gcc uuid.c -luuid
The -luuid seems to works, as if I change this value (like -luuidX) gcc complains about the fact it can't find the uuidX library.
But the LD pass doesn't works :
$ gcc uuid.c -luuid
/tmp/ccu0oh9q.o:uuid.c:(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `uuid_generate_random'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I manage to work around, but this is not really clean, and I don't know how to make the configure script take this tweak :
gcc -o uuid.exe uuid.o /cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/libuuid.dll.a
Any idea where does the problem come from ?
Thanks.
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/tmp/cc0dlffC.o:uuid.c:(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `uuid_generate_random'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

It is a gcc package error. As workaround use
gcc uuid.c -luuid -L/usr/lib
Reported to cygwin mailing list
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-04/msg00594.html