Call _beginthread(...) in C:\Program Files\Go\src\runtime\cgo

[TimurIskandarov]

The sqlite3 driver is not built mattn/go-sqlite3#855

$ CGO_ENABLED=1 go install github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
# runtime/cgo
gcc_libinit_windows.c: In function ‘_cgo_beginthread’:
gcc_libinit_windows.c:136:27: error: implicit declaration of function ‘_beginthread’; did you mean ‘_cgo_beginthread’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  136 |                 thandle = _beginthread(func, 0, arg);
      |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                           _cgo_beginthread
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

It is called in the following files:

• C:\Program Files\Go\src\runtime\cgo\gcc_libinit_windows.c\libcgo_windows.h
• C:\Program Files\Go\src\runtime\cgo\gcc_libinit_windows.c

gcc (pacman -S gcc) searches for header files in directories:

 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-msys/11.3.0/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-msys/11.3.0/include-fixed
 /usr/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-msys/11.3.0/../../../../lib/../include/w32api

process.h in /usr/include
windows.h -> /usr/include

This problem is not only related to the sqlite3 driver, it was also mentioned here golang/go#59490 (comment) and here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75067559/how-to-fix-cgo-error-caused-by-race-flag

How can this be fixed? Maybe you need to somehow correct the names of the header files?

[Biswa96]

"C:\Program Files\Go" is not provided by MSYS2.

gcc (pacman -S gcc) searches for header files in directories:

Use the mingw gcc.

[TimurIskandarov]

@Biswa96 mingw-w64-go build sqlite driver?

[Biswa96]

Please explain your question. I did not understand that.

[TimurIskandarov]

will mingw-w64-go build?

[Biswa96]

Feel free to try it.

[TimurIskandarov]

Got it, I'll try it and report back

[TimurIskandarov]

@Biswa96 pacman -s mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc works fine. I don't know why I didn't work out pacman -S gcc. Possibly due to MSYSTEM in settings.json VSCode.

    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        // Add profile MSYS2
        "MSYS2": {
            "path": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
            "args": ["--login", "-i"],
            "env": {
                "MSYSTEM": "MINGW64",
                "CHERE_INVOKING": "1",
                "MSYS2_PATH_TYPE": "inherit"
            },
            "overrideName": true
        },
        "PowerShell": null,
        "Git Bash": null,
    },
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "MSYS2",