Re: Making the Windows Build Easier

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have Update 2 installed.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38188
>
> I've installed update 2, still get a completely finished build.

I started over fresh overnight and got the same problem.

> Can you look to see that there is a line like this in all the vcxproj
> files under modules\proxy\balancers:
> <PropertyGroup><TrackFileAccess>false</TrackFileAccess></PropertyGroup>

Yes, next to last line right before the closing Project tag.

> The scripting that adds that bit is not really the greatest. Perhaps
> it's failing for you for some reason. One possibility here is a
> different version of Perl. I'm using Perl 5.16.3.1603 from:
> http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

I am also using ActiveState. 5.12.2 in my case.

> If the above doesn't help, can you try the attached script (adjusting
> paths). I know it's ugly it's basically just a find2perl script that
> I threw together to find failed builds while I was using this. Just
> run it while the cd is the trunk and it should point out which bits of
> the build have Build FAILED in them. You can then look at those logs
> and you should get a more detailed error. You very well may only find
> what you've already found.

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> The other comment I have is I did this on Windows 8 x64 (though I only
> built 32-bit binaries). I'm not sure what version of Windows you're
> using, but this might be another possible source of issues.

Windows 7 x64, doing a 32-bit build.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
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