Re: installing root from source using visual C++

From: George Locke <georgelocke.roottalk_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:35:18 -0500

[dammit i keep sending these directly to axel instead of to the list. sorry for spamming your inbox axel, you've been a great help]

I was able to solve the problem of not finding a .h file (by changing some system variables again), but now there is a linking problem.

here's the makelog: http://minos.phy.tufts.edu/glocke/rootstuff/mymakelog11-7_3

after successfully creating object files for building, rmkdepend, the install crashes before actually creating rmkdepend. the first error that i see is after the object builds and i'll just include the rest of the log from there:
"
build/win/ld.sh -nologo -ignore:4049,4075,4217,4221 -incremental:no -o bin/rmkdepend.exe build/rmkdepend/cppsetup.o

build/rmkdepend/ifparser.o build/rmkdepend/include.o
build/rmkdepend/main.o build/rmkdepend/parse.o build/rmkdepend/pr.o
build/rmkdepend/mainroot.o

link: invalid option -- n
Try `link --help' for more information.
Running build/win/compiledata.sh
Making include/compiledata.h
bin/rmkdepend.exe -R -fcint/src/g__cfunc.d -Y -w 1000 -- -nologo -Ibuild/win -FIw32pragma.h -FIsehmap.h -MD -EHa -Iinclude -- cint/src/g__cfunc.c
make: bin/rmkdepend.exe: Command not found make: *** [cint/src/g__cfunc.o] Error 127 "

looks to me like the error is happening somewhere inside this build/win/ld.sh file (described as "Simple interface to LINK, tansforming -o <exe> to -out:<exe> and unix pathnames to windows pathnames"), but i'm not sure where :\ i can't find anywhere that has a -n option to a link command.

regards,
George

On 11/7/06, Axel Naumann <Axel.Naumann_at_cern.ch> wrote:
> OK, saw your mail too late. Glad it works.
> Axel.
>
> George Locke wrote:
> > well,
> >
> > cl.exe was couldn't find a DLL (mspdb80.dll) ; i put the path to it
> > into PATH environmental variable and now cygwin outputs some msg with
> > the version number, copyright info etc...
> >
> > the command unset VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT ; cl.exe 2>&1 | awk '{ if (NR==1)
> > print $8 }'
> > now outputs the version number of cl.exe, 14.000.5......
> >
> > so this certainly was gumming up the works in a major way! thanks
> > very much for helping to uncover this, admittedly basic, problem.
> > hopefully next time i'll know what kinds of things to look fro and be
> > able to fix this kind of thing on my own.
> >
> > there was a missing header file which i'm adding. i'll certainly come
> > running back if i find something else i can't fix on my own.
> >
> > THANKS AGAIN!!!
> >
> > regards,
> > george
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/7/06, George Locke <georgelocke.roottalk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: George Locke <georgelocke.roottalk_at_gmail.com>
> >> Date: Nov 7, 2006 10:14 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ROOT] installing root from source using visual C++
> >> To: Axel Naumann <Axel.Naumann_at_cern.ch>
> >>
> >>
> >> no output following "cl.exe" :( as i said which cl.exe returns the
> >> correct address
> >>
> >> no response to "unset VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT ; cl.exe 2>&1 | awk '{ if
> >> (NR==1) print $8 }'"
> >>
> >> which cut returns /usr/bin/cut
> >> which awk returns /usr/bin/awk
> >>
> >> i am investigating whether awk is working at all, when i
> >> confirm/disconfirm that a hello world program works i'll let you know.
> >>
> >> once again, thanks a lot for you help.
> >>
> >> - george
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/7/06, Axel Naumann <Axel.Naumann_at_cern.ch> wrote:
> >> > Hi George,
> >> >
> >> > George Locke wrote:
> >> > > "Also, please don't mix the
> >> > >> cygwin and the dos shell builds - you should probably always use the
> >> > >> cygwin shell for now, as it's better understood."
> >> > > I hope i understand you to mean that i should 'make' in cygwin not
> >> > > DOS, but i'll be creating a program that runs natively in windows and
> >> > > will make nice with msvc.
> >> >
> >> > That's correct, the aim is to call MSVC from within cygwin, to build a
> >> > native windows program.
> >> >
> >> > > rather then messing with making clean or distclean, i'm deleting the
> >> > > entire directory between builds, just to be extra sure that things
> >> are
> >> > > raelly clean.
> >> >
> >> > Fine.
> >> >
> >> > > typing in the command,
> >> > > "
> >> > > ( unset VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT ; cl.exe 2>&1 | \
> >> > > awk '{ if (NR==1) print $8 }' | \
> >> > > cut -d'.' -f1 )
> >> > > "
> >> > > i get no response.
> >> >
> >> > That's bad, abnd probably the reason why your build is failing. What
> >> > does "cl.exe" print?
> >> > What does "which awk" print?
> >> > What does
> >> > unset VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT ; cl.exe 2>&1 | awk '{ if (NR==1) print $8 }'
> >> > print?
> >> > And finally "which cut"?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers, Axel.
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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