Re: [HTCondor-devel] Problems building htcondor on Windows

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/22/2015 9:29 AM, Rowe, Thomas wrote:

> Can anyone report building HtCondor from scratch on Windows with
> CMake and Visual Studio without error? Is there something obvious I'm
> missing? How exactly is the build system that produces the Windows
> installer set up?
I build HTCondor on my Windows laptop all the time.  FWIW, my laptop is 
Windows 7 and I have Visual Studio 2008 Professional installed (yes, I 
need to upgrade soon).
I pretty much followed the VS2008 build instructions here:

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=BuildingHtcondorOnWindowsVsNine

I use CMake 2.8.6.  You will note that the wiki says to NOT use cmake 
3.x, since cmake 3.x broke compatibility with cmake 2.x.  I think some 
of the problems you are encountering could be because you are using an 
incompatible CMake version.
I almost always just do the "default" cmake build on Windows, i.e. I do 
not bother with customizing the cmake options.  I think the default is 
to not build the regression test programs.
I definitely did the "optional" step #5 on the above wiki page of 
setting the CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE environment variable, which 
prevents having to rebuild things like boost and over and over.   Set 
this environment variable and re-run CMake, then do a build.  All the 
downloaded source and compiled object files should then live inside 
auto-generated subdirectories in your CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE folder. 
 Now re-run CMake again so it notices everything is pre-staged (and 
precompiled), and you should be able to build quickly while offline 
(iirc I have built HTCondor on Windows while on an airplane).
Note for VS2012 you prolly wanna follow the instructions here:
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=BuildingHtcondorOnWindows

Hope the above helps
Todd