Re: [Condor-devel] Compilation Condor 7.5.0 (and previous versions) on Windows XP using Visual Studio 9.0

["Timothy St. Clair" <tstclair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Make certain that active perl is ahead of any other perl (namely cygwin)
in your path.  It should be a pre-req. 


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Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair



On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 10:53 +0100, Kristof overdulve wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> 
> Since a few days ago I have been trying to compile Condor on a fresh
> Windows XP machine with Visual Studio 9.0 installed. All was installed
> in the default directories so when executing make.bat in the msconfig
> directory, the set_vars.bat succeed and it seems that all is going
> well.
> 
> 
> However, upon execution the make_win32_externals.bat I get the error
> "else was unexpected at this time". I can handle such sort of errors,
> so I eliminated the notion of the else statement and just executed the
> contents of the if statement. This too goes wrong:
> 
> 
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> Can't open perl script "C:\Program": Permission denied
> *** Failed to build externals ***
> 
> 
> Okay, as it seems Windows does not handle spaces too well, lets try
> putting the arguments between parentheses. This seems to work but then
> I get
> 
> 
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcprojects
> \condor-7.5.0\msconfig>make
> Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.
> Targeting Windows 2000 and IE 5.0 RETAIL
> 
> 
> Found BUILD-ID in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC
> \vcprojects\condor-7.5.0
> Using build-id: 205324
> 
> 
> Warning: Use of "localtime" without parentheses is ambiguous at C:
> \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcprojects\condor-7.5.0
> \msconfig\..\external
> rm: C:\Program: is a directory
> Setting up gsoap-2.7.10-p5 ...
> (see C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcprojects
> \condor-7.5.0\msconfig\..\externals/build/log.gsoap-2.7.10-p5)
> gsoap-2.7.10-p5: FAILED! (see C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\vcprojects\condor-7.5.0\msconfig
> \..\externals/build/log.gsoap-2.7.10-p5)
> tail: C:\Program: Permission denied
> tail: Files\Microsoft: Permission denied
> tail: Visual: Permission denied
> tail: Studio: Permission denied
> tail: 9.0\VC\vcprojects\condor-7.5.0\msconfig
> \..\externals/build/log.gsoap-2.7.10-p5: No such file or directory
> Can't spawn "tail -50 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC
> \vcprojects\condor-7.5.0\msconfig
> \..\externals/build/log.gsoap-2.7.10-p5": No error at
> \VC\vcprojects\condor-7.5.0\msconfig\..\externals\build_external line
> 384.
> tail: C:\Program: Permission denied
> tail: Files\Microsoft: Permission denied
> tail: Visual: Permission denied
> tail: Studio: Permission denied
> ...
> ...
> (the list does on)
> 
> 
> I can conclude from this output that the perl script that is called in
> the make_win32_externals.bat script has its own set of problems, also
> related to spaces. More specifically, the paths seem to be chopped off
> at the first occurrence of each space. Whereas I can now start adding
> parentheses everywhere - which i would not prefer - I am hoping that
> you can help me, since I cannot believe that I am the only one dealing
> with this problem. Google did not really help me out here so ...
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> With kind regards,
> Kristof Overdulve.
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