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Attempt ID 7b64txxdd5lxw Attempt group run-23-09-21-48
Revision ad46875d9374 AWS Instance m8i.2xlarge
Start time 2025-09-23T20:24:35.144Z End time 2025-09-23T20:26:48.389Z
Task jq-windows Environment ubuntu-22.04-amd64-wine
Model deepseek-v3.1-terminus logo deepseek-v3.1-terminus OpenRouter slug deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus
Temperature 1 Explicit prompt caching false
User msg after tool call false Max tool calls 100
Total timeout seconds 2400 Single command timeout 1200
Cost $0.055 Duration 2m6s
LLM inference time 1m26s Command execution time 40s
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Task
Task: jq-windows

jq 1.8.1 is a command-line JSON utility for viewing and transforming JSON.
Project link: github.com/jqlang/jq

Task:
Compile and install jq to a specific location. Cross-compile to Windows, link it statically.

Difficulties:
Cross-compilation to Windows, setting up the cross-compilation toolchain (compilers, etc), making sure that there are no dynamic libraries.

Environment:
Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64, with internet access.

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SYSTEM

You are a package-building specialist operating a Ubuntu 22.04 bash shell via one tool: run_terminal_cmd.
The current working directory of every run_terminal_cmd is /home/peter.
Execution rules:
- Always pass non-interactive flags for any command that could prompt (e.g., -y, --yes, DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive).
- Don't include any newlines in the command.
- You can use sudo.
If you encounter any errors or issues while doing the user's request, you must fix them and continue the task.
At the end verify you did the user request correctly.

USER

You are given jq v1.8.1 source code at jq.tar.gz. Please compile the jq package for amd64 Windows and install it to /home/peter/result/jq.exe. Build it statically.

ASSISTANT

I'll help you compile jq v1.8.1 for Windows amd64 and install it as a static executable. Let me start by extracting the source code and setting up the build environment.

compile-bench> pwd
/home/peter
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Let me first check what's in the current directory and then extract the jq source code.

compile-bench> ls -la
total 2004
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter    4096 Sep 23 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root  root     4096 Sep 15 11:21 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter     220 Jan  6  2022 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    3771 Jan  6  2022 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter     807 Jan  6  2022 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 2026798 Sep 23 20:24 jq.tar.gz
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Now I'll extract the jq source code:

compile-bench> tar -xzf jq.tar.gz
[empty output]
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Let me list the directory to see if the extraction worked:

compile-bench> ls -la
total 2008
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter    4096 Sep 23 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root  root     4096 Sep 15 11:21 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter     220 Jan  6  2022 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    3771 Jan  6  2022 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter     807 Jan  6  2022 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 9 peter peter    4096 Jul  1 11:40 jq-1.8.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 2026798 Sep 23 20:24 jq.tar.gz
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Good! The source code has been extracted. Now I need to install the necessary build dependencies for cross-compiling to Windows amd64. I'll need a cross-compilation toolchain:

compile-bench> sudo apt-get update
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build-essential is already the newest version (12.9ubuntu3).
The following additional packages will be installed:
  autotools-dev binutils-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64
  g++-mingw-w64 g++-mingw-w64-i686 g++-mingw-w64-i686-posix
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  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32-runtime libltdl-dev libsigsegv2 m4
  mingw-w64-common mingw-w64-i686-dev mingw-w64-x86-64-dev
Suggested packages:
  autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc gettext gcc-10-locales
  libtool-doc gfortran | fortran95-compiler gcj-jdk m4-doc
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  autoconf automake autotools-dev binutils-mingw-w64-i686
  binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64 g++-mingw-w64-i686
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ASSISTANT

Now let's check if the cross-compiler is properly installed:

compile-bench> which x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
ASSISTANT

Good! Now let's change to the jq source directory and check its build system:

compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && ls -la
total 1184
drwxr-xr-x 9 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 .
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter   4096 Sep 23 20:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  10686 Jul  1 11:39 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   7887 Jul  1 11:39 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  33286 Jul  1 11:39 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   9090 Jul  1 11:39 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  75461 Jul  1 11:39 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  24670 Jul  1 11:39 NEWS.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   2434 Jul  1 11:39 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  46459 Jul  1 11:39 aclocal.m4
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peter peter 665647 Jul  1 11:39 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   9881 Jul  1 11:39 configure.ac
drwxr-xr-x 5 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 124253 Jul  1 11:39 jq.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 124253 Jul  1 11:39 jq.1.prebuilt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   1431 Jul  1 11:39 jq.spec
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-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    246 Jul  1 11:39 libjq.pc.in
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 m4
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 src
drwxr-xr-x 4 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 tests
drwxr-xr-x 4 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 vendor
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ASSISTANT

Now I need to configure jq for cross-compilation to Windows. I'll set up the appropriate cross-compilation flags:

compile-bench> CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc AR=x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar RANLIB=x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib STRIP=x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --disable-shared CFLAGS="-static" LDFLAGS="-static"
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
ASSISTANT

It seems the configure script might not be executable. Let me check and make it executable:

compile-bench> ls -la configure
ls: cannot access 'configure': No such file or directory
ASSISTANT

Let me check the current directory and try again with the correct path:

compile-bench> pwd
/home/peter
ASSISTANT

I need to navigate to the jq source directory first:

compile-bench> cd /home/peter/jq-1.8.1 && ls -la configure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peter peter 665647 Jul  1 11:39 configure
ASSISTANT

Good! The configure script is executable. Now I'll configure jq for cross-compilation to Windows:

compile-bench> CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/home/peter/result --disable-shared --enable-static
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
ASSISTANT

This is strange. Let me check if I'm in the correct directory:

compile-bench> pwd && ls -la configure
/home/peter
ls: cannot access 'configure': No such file or directory
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ASSISTANT

It seems each command runs in a fresh shell. Let me chain the commands properly:

compile-bench> cd /home/peter/jq-1.8.1 && CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/home/peter/result --disable-shared --enable-static
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checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/times.h... no
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
checking size of long long... 8
checking size of void*... 8
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... no
checking for alloca... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating sample/Makefile
config.status: creating onig-config
config.status: creating src/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default commands
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ASSISTANT

Great! The configuration was successful. Now I'll build jq using make:

compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && make -j$(nproc)
mkdir -p src
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/builtin.inc
  GEN      src/config_opts.inc
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
Making all in vendor/oniguruma
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
Making all in src
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make  all-am
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regparse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regparse.Tpo -c -o regparse.lo regparse.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regcomp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regcomp.Tpo -c -o regcomp.lo regcomp.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regexec.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regexec.Tpo -c -o regexec.lo regexec.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regenc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regenc.Tpo -c -o regenc.lo regenc.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regerror.Tpo -c -o regerror.lo regerror.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regext.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regext.Tpo -c -o regext.lo regext.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regsyntax.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regsyntax.Tpo -c -o regsyntax.lo regsyntax.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regtrav.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regtrav.Tpo -c -o regtrav.lo regtrav.c
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regparse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regparse.Tpo -c regparse.c -o regparse.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regext.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regext.Tpo -c regext.c -o regext.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regcomp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regcomp.Tpo -c regcomp.c -o regcomp.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regsyntax.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regsyntax.Tpo -c regsyntax.c -o regsyntax.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regtrav.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regtrav.Tpo -c regtrav.c -o regtrav.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regexec.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regexec.Tpo -c regexec.c -o regexec.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regenc.lo -MD -MP -
[command output truncated]
uilding static only
libtool: link: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar cr .libs/libonig.a  regparse.o regcomp.o regexec.o regenc.o regerror.o regext.o regsyntax.o regtrav.o regversion.o st.o reggnu.o unicode.o unicode_unfold_key.o unicode_fold1_key.o unicode_fold2_key.o unicode_fold3_key.o ascii.o utf8.o utf16_be.o utf16_le.o utf32_be.o utf32_le.o euc_jp.o euc_jp_prop.o sjis.o sjis_prop.o iso8859_1.o iso8859_2.o iso8859_3.o iso8859_4.o iso8859_5.o iso8859_6.o iso8859_7.o iso8859_8.o iso8859_9.o iso8859_10.o iso8859_11.o iso8859_13.o iso8859_14.o iso8859_15.o iso8859_16.o euc_tw.o euc_kr.o big5.o gb18030.o koi8_r.o cp1251.o onig_init.o
libtool: link: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib .libs/libonig.a
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libonig.la" && ln -s "../libonig.la" "libonig.la" )
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
Making all in test
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
Making all in sample
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
sed -e 's,[@]datadir[@],/home/peter/result/share,g' -e 's,[@]datarootdir[@],/home/peter/result/share,g' -e 's,[@]PACKAGE_VERSION[@],6.9.10,g' -e 's,[@]prefix[@],/home/peter/result,g' -e 's,[@]exec_prefix[@],/home/peter/result,g' -e 's,[@]libdir[@],/home/peter/result/lib,g' -e 's,[@]includedir[@],/home/peter/result/include,g' < ./oniguruma.pc.in > oniguruma.pc
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
  CC       src/builtin.lo
  CC       src/bytecode.lo
  CC       src/compile.lo
  CC       src/execute.lo
  CC       src/jq_test.lo
  CC       src/jv.lo
  CC       src/jv_alloc.lo
  CC       src/jv_aux.lo
  CC       src/jv_dtoa.lo
  CC       src/jv_file.lo
  CC       src/jv_parse.lo
  CC       src/jv_print.lo
  CC       src/jv_unicode.lo
  CC       src/linker.lo
  CC       src/locfile.lo
  CC       src/util.lo
  CC       src/jv_dtoa_tsd.lo
  CC       vendor/decNumber/decContext.lo
  CC       vendor/decNumber/decNumber.lo
  CC       src/lexer.lo
  CC       src/parser.lo
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
  CC       src/main.o
src/main.c:21:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [ttps://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wstrict-prototypes-Wstrict-prototypes]8;;]
   21 | extern void jv_tsd_dtoa_ctx_init();
      | ^~~~~~
  CCLD     libjq.la
  CCLD     jq.exe
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
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Excellent! The build was successful and produced jq.exe. Now I need to create the output directory and install the compiled executable. Let me check if the jq.exe was built:

compile-bench> cd /home/peter/jq-1.8.1 && file jq.exe
jq.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows
ASSISTANT

Great! The Windows executable was built successfully. Now I need to create the result directory and install jq.exe there:

compile-bench> mkdir -p /home/peter/result && cp /home/peter/jq-1.8.1/jq.exe /home/peter/result/
[empty output]
ASSISTANT

Let me verify that jq.exe was successfully copied to the result directory:

compile-bench> ls -la /home/peter/result/
total 4140
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter    4096 Sep 23 20:25 .
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter    4096 Sep 23 20:25 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peter peter 4229782 Sep 23 20:25 jq.exe
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Let me verify that the executable is statically linked as requested:

compile-bench> file /home/peter/result/jq.exe
/home/peter/result/jq.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows
ASSISTANT

Let me check if it's statically linked using the file command which can give more details:

compile-bench> file /home/peter/result/jq.exe
/home/peter/result/jq.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows
ASSISTANT

Since we're on Linux and trying to check a Windows executable, let me use objdump to verify the static linking:

compile-bench> objdump -p /home/peter/result/jq.exe | head -20
/home/peter/result/jq.exe:     file format pei-x86-64

Characteristics 0x26
	executable
	line numbers stripped
	large address aware

Time/Date		Tue Sep 23 20:25:48 2025
Magic			020b	(PE32+)
MajorLinkerVersion	2
MinorLinkerVersion	38
SizeOfCode		000000000007a400
SizeOfInitializedData	00000000000e8200
SizeOfUninitializedData	0000000000001000
AddressOfEntryPoint	0000000000001520
BaseOfCode		0000000000001000
ImageBase		0000000140000000
SectionAlignment	00001000
FileAlignment		00000200
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Let me check further to see if there are dynamic dependencies:

compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && x86_64-w64-mingw32-objdump -p jq.exe | grep -i dll
DllCharacteristics	00000160
 vma:            Hint    Time      Forward  DLL       First
	DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
	DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
	DLL Name: libwinpthread-1.dll
	DLL Name: SHLWAPI.dll
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I see the issue! The executable has some Windows DLL dependencies, which means it's not fully static. I need to rebuild jq with proper static linking flags. Let me reconfigure with additional static linking options:

compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && make clean
Making clean in vendor/oniguruma
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
Making clean in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
test -z "libonig.la" || rm -f libonig.la
rm -f ./so_locations
rm -rf .libs _libs
rm -f *.o
rm -f *.lo
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
Making clean in test
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
 rm -f test_utf8.exe test_syntax.exe test_options.exe testc.exe testcu.exe test_regset.exe test_back.exe
 rm -f test_utf8 test_syntax test_options testc testcu test_regset test_back
rm -rf .libs _libs
rm -f *.o
test -z "test_utf8.log test_syntax.log test_options.log testc.log testcu.log test_regset.log test_back.log" || rm -f test_utf8.log test_syntax.log test_options.log testc.log testcu.log test_regset.log test_back.log
test -z "test_utf8.trs test_syntax.trs test_options.trs testc.trs testcu.trs test_regset.trs test_back.trs" || rm -f test_utf8.trs test_syntax.trs test_options.trs testc.trs testcu.trs test_regset.trs test_back.trs
test -z "test-suite.log" || rm -f test-suite.log
rm -f *.lo
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
Making clean in sample
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
 rm -f encode.exe listcap.exe names.exe simple.exe sql.exe syntax.exe user_property.exe callout.exe echo.exe count.exe bug_fix.exe regset.exe scan.exe callback_each_match.exe
 rm -f encode listcap names simple sql syntax user_property callout echo count bug_fix regset scan callback_each_match
rm -rf .libs _libs
rm -f *.o
test -z "encode.log listcap.log names.log simple.log sql.log syntax.log user_property.log callout.log echo.log count.log bug_fix.log regset.log scan.log callback_each_match.log" || rm -f encode.log listcap.log names.log simple.log sql.log syntax.log user_property.log callout.log echo.log count.log bug_fix.log regset.log scan.log callback_each_match.log
test -z "encode.trs listcap.trs names.trs simple.trs sql.trs syntax.trs user_property.trs callout.trs echo.trs count.trs bug_fix.trs regset.trs scan.trs callback_each_match.trs" || rm -f encode.trs listcap.trs names.trs simple.trs sql.trs syntax.trs user_property.trs callout.trs echo.trs count.trs bug_fix.trs regset.trs scan.trs callback_each_match.trs
test -z "test-suite.log" || rm -f test-suite.log
rm -f *.lo
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
rm -rf .libs _libs
rm -f *.lo
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
 rm -f jq.exe
 rm -f jq
test -z "src/version.h .remake-version-h src/builtin.inc src/config_opts.inc jq.1" || rm -f src/version.h .remake-version-h src/builtin.inc src/config_opts.inc jq.1
test -z "libjq.la " || rm -f libjq.la 
rm -f ./so_locations
rm -rf .libs _libs
rm -rf src/.libs src/_libs
rm -rf vendor/decNumber/.libs vendor/decNumber/_libs
rm -f *.o
rm -f src/*.o
rm -f src/*.lo
rm -f vendor/decNumber/*.o
rm -f vendor/decNumber/*.lo
test -z "tests/mantest.log tests/jqtest.log tests/shtest.log tests/utf8test.log tests/base64test.log tests/uritest.log tests/onigtest.log tests/manonigtest.log" || rm -f tests/mantest.log tests/jqtest.log tests/shtest.log tests/utf8test.log tests/base64test.log tests/uritest.log tests/onigtest.log tests/manonigtest.log
test -z "tests/mantest.trs tests/jqtest.trs tests/shtest.trs tests/utf8test.trs tests/base64test.trs tests/uritest.trs tests/onigtest.trs tests/manonigtest.trs" || rm -f tests/mantest.trs tests/jqtest.trs tests/shtest.trs tests/utf8test.trs tests/base64test.trs tests/uritest.trs tests/onigtest.trs tests/manonigtest.trs
test -z "test-suite.log" || rm -f test-suite.log
rm -f *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
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Now I'll reconfigure with static linking flags:

compile-bench> cd /home/peter/jq-1.8.1 && ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --disable-shared --with-oniguruma=builtin LDFLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" CFLAGS="-static"
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc... x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip... x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking dependency style of x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc... gcc3
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar... x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar
checking the archiver (x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar) interface... ar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc... (cached) x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
checking whether x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -E
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-w64-mingw32
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc... /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-nm -B) interface... BSD n
[command output truncated]
_64-w64-mingw32-objdump... x86_64-w64-mingw32-objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... file_magic ^x86 archive import|^x86 DLL
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool... x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... func_cygming_dll_for_implib
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar... x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip... (cached) x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib... x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-nm -B output from x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-mt... no
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/times.h... no
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
checking size of long long... 8
checking size of void*... 8
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... no
checking for alloca... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating sample/Makefile
config.status: creating onig-config
config.status: creating src/config.h
config.status: src/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default commands
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ASSISTANT

Now let me rebuild with the static flags:

compile-bench> cd /home/peter/jq-1.8.1 && make -j$(nproc)
mkdir -p src
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/builtin.inc
  GEN      src/config_opts.inc
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
Making all in vendor/oniguruma
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ASSISTANT

The build completed successfully, but I noticed we're still linking against Windows DLLs. Let me try a different approach by explicitly passing different linker flags. First, let me check what the current binary looks like and try a different configuration:

Task failed!
Error
task failed: jq help does not contain expected string
Checks passed:
jq.exe is an amd64 Windows executable
Checks failed:
jq help does not contain expected string
jq does not evaluate simple expression