Windows configure "issues"

[David Holmes]

On 29/05/2013 3:04 AM, David Chase wrote:
> Non-progress report with VS2010 -
>
> Tim Bell's patches, and perhaps the residual cruft from the "uninstalled" VS2012,
> don't seem to be compatible with VS2010.  These look like patch problems, not
> faulty uninstall problems, but I did need to do a by-hand removal of environment
> variables referencing VS2012 (machine reboot was not sufficient).
>
> The three problems encountered thus far:
>
> 1) patched system looks for msvcr110.dll, but (in system32 on Windows 7)
>      only msvcr100.dll is available.
>
> 2) patched system expects that compiler will generate (in 32-bit mode) for "x86", not "80x86"
>
> I tweaked my built to handle those two cases.  The latest failure I have not yet worked around:
>
> 3) Link complains about an extra argument _build_pch_file.obj when linking adlc .
>
> Any hints as to how to deal with this last error are welcome.

Disable pre-compiled headers ?

David


> David
>
> On 2013-05-24, at 5:41 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, progress report.
>>
>> No additional changes to the build, but the instructions may require tweaking.
>>
>> Did manage successful builds without closed subdirectories, using VS2012 and DirectX 2010.
>>
>> Required installation+build of Freetype using instructions from Volker's blog, adapted slightly
>> for updated activex and new build directory expectations.  Not sure what is the best plan here;
>> the fix is all of
>>
>> mkdir ../../../lib
>> cp * ../../../lib
>>
>> Compared to the additional steps needed to get it built, this is not a big deal, so I am not sure it
>> justifies whacking on the build scripts.
>>
>> VS2012, the studio, does not come with 64-bit support, even though the compilers are there,
>> so this is a glitch.
>>
>> So, from the list to consider:
>>
>> { VS2010, VS2012, VS2012sp1} x {express, professional} x {32, 64} x {open, closed}
>>
>> the results thus far are:
>>
>> VS2012 x express x {32, 64} x closed = builds, runs
>>
>> VS2012 x express x 32 x open = builds, runs (release and slowdebug)
>>
>> VS2012 x express x 64 x open = blocked by initial inability to build 64-bit freetype
>>
>> next step is to try VS2010 express to see if it still works.
>>
>> David
>>
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