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Re: 1.9/trunk build errors when building without OpenSSL

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:55:38 +0200

On 20.07.2015 16:20, Stefan Hett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> following several hours of investigation and discussion on IRC with
> danielsh, philipm and bert I believe there to be some issue in the
> build generator for Windows.
>
> Running the python command:
> python gen-make.py -t vcproj --with-zlib=..\zlib --with-apr=..\apr
> --with-apr-util=..\apr-util --vsnet-version=2010
>
> followed by building (using VS 2010 SP1):
> msbuild subversion_vcnet.sln /t:__ALL_TESTS__ /p:Configuration=Release
>
> I get 8 project errors:
> - libsvn_ra_dll: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file
> 'ssleay32.lib'
> [E:\[delete]SVNTest\SVN\src-trunk\build\win32\vcnet-vcproj\libsvn_ra_dll.vcxproj]
> - test_client: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file
> 'ssleay32.lib'
> [E:\[delete]SVNTest\SVN\src-trunk\build\win32\vcnet-vcproj\test_client.vcxproj]
> - conflict-data-test: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input
> file 'ssleay32.lib'
> [E:\[delete]SVNTest\SVN\src-trunk\build\win32\vcnet-vcproj\test_conflict_data.vcxproj]
> - some more tests - all with ssleay32.lib missing
>
> ssleay32.lib is an OpenSSL library specified in build.conf in the
> openssl-section alongside libeay32.lib for the "msvc-libs"-option.
>
> Looking at the generated libsvn_ra_dll.vcxproj-file actually shows the
> additional linker dependencies being set to:
> [...]ssleay32.lib;libeay32.lib;secur32.lib[...]
>
> IMHO this is wrong. I'm explicitly building without OpenSSL as well as
> without serf and still these OpenSSL/Serf librarie references are
> being generated in the project files.
>
> Taken from build.conf:
> libsvn_ra specifies "ra_libs" as a libs dependency and "ra-libs"
> specifies "libsvn_ra_serf" as a libs-dependency which then specifies
> "serf" as a lib-dependency which defines msvc-libs as secur32.lib.
> "serf" then also defines "openssl" as the dependency which in effect
> takes ssleay32.lib and libeay32.lib as the setting for msvc-libs.
>
> gen_win.py:get_win_libs: takes the msvc-libs conditionless as the
> required dependencies *UNLESS* the target specifies msvc_static (in
> which case get_win_libs returns an empty array).
>
> Originally my thought was that the generated dependency tree should be
> adjusted so it correctly reflects the build-parameter-state (aka: drop
> serf/openSSL completely) but danielsh clarified to me that he believes
> the issue rather to be in the part generating the project output since
> the dependency tree should simply reflect exactly what is specified in
> the build.conf-file.
>
> So I guess that the issue is located in gen_win.py:get_win_libs() not
> omitting the libraries, if these are not specified by the gen-make
> commands.
>
> I've tested the attached patch and with that applied, running the two
> build commands stated above succeed with no errors (also verified that
> the generated project files then no longer contain the lib-references).
> However, I'm not 100% convinced yet that this is the correct approach
> or whether some more generic solution would be more suitable (aka one
> which would handle any optional library not present and the
> corresponding entry in the build dependency tree).
> Given that there's already another special case command omitting the
> ra-serf-install target if "serf" is not found, I guess the patch might
> be acceptable though.
> Nevertheless, I think some SVN developer is better of with providing
> more input on this so to find the right solution.
>
> (note: the issue also exists in 1.9 and currently results in the fact
> that building without OpenSSL fails on Windows - assuming this is not
> a problem in 1.8, it's a regression of 1.9 compared to 1.8).

It's very likely not a regression but a long-standing missing feature of
the Windows build generator.

Note that these days, the only thing that uses OpenSSL is Serf; so, the
libsvn_ra DLL should only link OpenSSL if we're statically linking Serf
and if Serf was build with OpenSSL support. Even then, I believe that
OpenSSL should be in the Serf library dependency list. I'd have expected
that there'd be no need to mention the OpenSSL importlib dependencies in
the libsvn_ra project at all ... but ISTR they're needed on Windows
despite the explicit dependency in Serf?

-- Brane
Received on 2015-07-21 07:56:47 CEST

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