RE: Problems building Subversion binaries on Windows.

Martin Tomes wrote:
> I have followed the instructions in the INSTALL file for building
> Windows binaries and get as far as building Apache, but the build of
> Subversion fails spectacularly!
>
> I am using:
>
> - Windows/XP
> - Visual Studio 6 SP5
> - The Feb. 2004 SDK (INCLUDE and LIB set to point to it)
> - Sources as specified in INSTALL
> - A checkout of the 1.0.1 tag
>
> I have attached the output from msdev. I was following this script as
> in the INSTALL file:
>
> C:\SVN> svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk src
> C:\SVN> gunzip neon-0.24.4.tar.gz
> C:\SVN> cd src
> C:\SVN\src> tar -xvf ..\neon-0.24.4.tar
> C:\SVN\src> ren neon-0.24.4 neon
> C:\SVN\src> unzip ..\db-4.2.52-win32.zip
> C:\SVN\src> cd ..
> C:\SVN> unzip httpd_2.0.48-win32-src.zip
> C:\SVN> copy w32locatedb.pl httpd-2.0.48\srclib\apr-util\build
> C:\SVN> perl httpd-2.0.48\srclib\apr-util\build\w32locatedb.pl dll
> src\db4-win32\include src\db4-win32\lib
> C:\SVN> msdev httpd-2.0.48\apache.dsw /MAKE "BuildBin - Win32 Debug"
> C:\SVN> cd src
> C:\SVN\src> python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-httpd=..\httpd-2.0.48
> C:\SVN\src> msdev subversion_msvc.dsw /MAKE "__ALL__ - Win32 Debug"

I don't see you checking out|unzipping apr, apr-util and apr-iconv
anywhere... ;-) Subversion requires a copy/link to these libraries in it's
own tree.

See section I.1 in http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL

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