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Fails to link on some processor arches (mipsel / m68k / powerpc / sh4) #8

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@hpreusse

Building (linking) the luametatex binary on some arches fails, as mimalloc uses symbols, which are only available in the atomic library. I run on Debian unstable and use gcc-13.

/usr/bin/cc -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/root/luametatex-2.10.08+ds=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro CMakeFiles/luametatex.dir/source/luametatex.c.o -o luametatex  libtex.a liblua.a libmp.a libluarest.a libluasocket.a libluaoptional.a libpplib.a libminiz.a libsoftposit.a -ldl libmimalloc.a -lpthread -lm
/usr/bin/ld: libmimalloc.a(stats.c.o): in function `mi_process_info':
./obj-m68k-linux-gnu/./source/libraries/mimalloc/src/stats.c:449:(.text+0x111a): undefined reference to `__atomic_load_8'
/usr/bin/ld: libmimalloc.a(stats.c.o): in function `mi_atomic_addi64_relaxed':
./obj-m68k-linux-gnu/./source/libraries/mimalloc/include/mimalloc/atomic.h:112:(.text+0x28): undefined reference to `__atomic_fetch_add_8'
/usr/bin/ld: libmimalloc.a(stats.c.o): in function `mi_atomic_maxi64_relaxed':
./obj-m68k-linux-gnu/./source/libraries/mimalloc/include/mimalloc/atomic.h:115:(.text+0x40): undefined reference to `__atomic_load_8'
/usr/bin/ld: ./obj-m68k-linux-gnu/./source/libraries/mimalloc/include/mimalloc/atomic.h:116:(.text+0x70): undefined reference to `__atomic_compare_exchange_8'
/usr/bin/ld: libmimalloc.a(stats.c.o): in function `mi_atomic_addi64_relaxed':
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After adding the atomc lib, linking works fine:

(m68k-sid)root@sid-amd64:~/luametatex-2.10.08+ds/obj-m68k-linux-gnu# /usr/bin/cc -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/root/luametatex-2.10.08+ds=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro CMakeFiles/luametatex.dir/source/luametatex.c.o -o luametatex  libtex.a liblua.a libmp.a libluarest.a libluasocket.a libluaoptional.a libpplib.a libminiz.a libsoftposit.a -ldl libmimalloc.a -lpthread -lm -latomic
(m68k-sid)root@sid-amd64:~/luametatex-2.10.08+ds/obj-m68k-linux-gnu# ldd luametatex
        libm.so.6 => /lib/m68k-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x7ffb0000)
        libatomic.so.1 => /lib/m68k-linux-gnu/libatomic.so.1 (0x7ffa6000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/m68k-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7fe20000)
        /lib/ld.so.1 (0x40000000)
(m68k-sid)root@sid-amd64:~/luametatex-2.10.08+ds/obj-m68k-linux-gnu# ls -l luametatex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12734240 Aug  2 09:45 luametatex

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