Re: [Cs-dev] Windows build (was Re: Happy Birthday to DrB)

Date	2006-11-17 16:40
From	Michael Gogins
Subject	Re: [Cs-dev] Windows build (was Re: Happy Birthday to DrB)
	I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Why should you need to know where my computer will be? Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- >From: Victor Lazzarini >Sent: Nov 17, 2006 11:32 AM >To: Developer discussions , Michael Gogins , Developer discussions >Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Windows build (was Re: Happy Birthday to DrB) > >One other thing: where is the computer going to be? >I'll need to know. > >At 16:31 17/11/2006, Victor Lazzarini wrote: >>Installing mingw/msys might sort it out or it might not, I don't know. >>Scons says it defaults to msvc if it is present (and looks for the registry >>for it, so paths will not matter then). >> >>At home, 'gcc', 'mingw', etc. are found as tools, but it does not look like >>they are found in your system, perhaps you need to re-install scons. >> >>If you make the simple changes I advised, you will not need to maintain >>anything, it will work, as the defaults will change to gcc etc. >>Of course if you are installing stuff again, you will need to >>re-set the defaults to gcc etc. >> >>If you can find an alternative fix that works and loads custom-msvc.py, >>go ahead and do it. But I would prefer if it was done automatically, by >>looking at the toolset found by scons, if possible (it should indeed be >>possible, if scons is working correctly). As I am building stuff on several >>platforms, the more self-configuring things are, the better, as I am also >>short on time for development. >> >>Victor >> >>At 15:11 17/11/2006, you wrote: >> >I don't have time to maintain variants on the tools I use. In my view, >> >patching tools is very much the wrong approach. >> > >> >What is the reason that your SCons tools list contains 'mingw' and mine >> >does not? Do you have a record of the installation procedures that you >> >followed? >> > >> >I'm willing to re-install MSys/MinGW if doing that would fix this, but not >> >unless I am reasonably confident that re-installing will indeed fix it. >> > >> >Otherwise, I'll put the withMinGW option back in, but I'll change >> >SConstruct to use custom-msvc.py if withMinGW=0 is found. >> > >> >By the way, there are new versions of both SCons and SWIG available now. >> >I'm going to see if the new SWIG offers advantages for Java, Lisp, and >> >Lua. The new SWIG also supports Python 2.5. >> > >> >Regards, >> >Mike >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> > >From: Victor Lazzarini >> > >Sent: Nov 17, 2006 5:47 AM >> > >To: Developer discussions >> > >Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Windows build (was Re: Happy Birthday to DrB) >> > > >> > >I had a look at this and I think the problem is with your Scons set-up. It >> > >should find the string 'mingw' amongst your scons tools list, but it's >> > >not there, for some reason, Scons will not detect it. >> > > >> > >That's why you need to add it, manually, to the tools list; when scons >> > >start, it should list the tools; if they are not in the list, then >> that's a >> > >scons set-up problem. >> > > >> > >As reported here, csound5 builds fine on properly set-up systems (mine >> > >at home as well). >> > > >> > >I have looked around and here's a fix for your scons set-up >> > > >> > >In the scons directory, open SCons\Tool\__init__.py >> > > >> > >edit the following bit so that it looks like this (from line 246): >> > > >> > > if str(platform) == 'win32': >> > > #"prefer Microsoft tools on Windows" >> > > "prefer GNU tools on all other platforms" >> > > linkers = ['gnulink', 'mslink', 'ilink'] >> > > c_compilers = ['gcc', 'msvc', 'icc', 'cc'] >> > > cxx_compilers = ['g++', 'msvc', 'icc', 'c++'] >> > > assemblers = ['gas', 'nasm', 'masm'] >> > > fortran_compilers = ['g77', 'ifort', 'ifl', 'fortran'] >> > > ars = ['ar', 'mslib'] >> > > #linkers = ['mslink', 'gnulink', 'ilink', 'linkloc', 'ilink32' ] >> > > #c_compilers = ['msvc', 'mingw', 'gcc', 'icl', 'icc', 'cc', >> > 'bcc32' ] >> > > #cxx_compilers = ['msvc', 'icc', 'g++', 'c++', 'bcc32' ] >> > > #assemblers = ['masm', 'nasm', 'gas', '386asm' ] >> > > #fortran_compilers = ['g77', 'ifl', 'cvf', 'fortran'] >> > > #ars = ['mslib', 'ar', 'tlib'] >> > > >> > >Save and then just run scons as usual. >> > > >> > >I put msys here in my system and was able to build csound with it, >> > >even having MSVC in my path. >> > > >> > >Victor >> > > >> > > >> > >At 03:33 17/11/2006, you wrote: >> > >>Csound 5 again does not build with MinGW. There absolutely has to be a >> > >>manual option to determine the build platform on Windows. >> > >> >> > >>Victor, feel free to do it yourself -- if you don't, I'll try to come up >> > >>with something that will be easier to use with MSVC. >> > >> >> > >>Regards, >> > >>Mike >> > >>----- Original Message ----- >> > >>From: "Victor Lazzarini" >> > >>To: "Developer discussions" >> > >>Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:20 AM >> > >>Subject: [Cs-dev] Windows build (was Re: Happy Birthday to DrB) >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > The problem is that these changes now have made it impossible to >> > >> > build on MSVC. >> > >> > >> > >> > The major problem is that custom-msvc does not get loaded now even >> > >> > withMinGW=0 (the line that calls it is nowhere in Sconstruct !). But I >> > >> > can't add an if-else to load custom-msvc.py because it has to happen >> > >> > before the MinGW option check! >> > >> > >> > >> > So I did some changes that will hopefully detect mingw, even on a >> > >> > system with MSVC in as well. What I tried to do was to detect >> > >> > if mingw was at all in the system, by checking that it is in the tools >> > >> > list; if so it sets withMinGW to 1 and everything else proceeds as per >> > >> > your code. >> > >> > >> > >> > I also set the buildInterfaces option to default to '0' (I think >> > this was >> > >> > the original form). >> > >> > >> > >> > Could you let me know if this has worked for you? Otherwise we will >> > >> > have to look for a different solution. Although I prefer the default >> > >> > build platform to be msys/gcc, I am keen on keeping the MSVC build >> > >> > alive. >> > >> > >> > >> > Victor >> > >> > >> > >> > At 03:22 15/11/2006, you wrote: >> > >> >>Happy birthday, Richard! >> > >> >> >> > >> >>I am preparing the Windows build. I have had to make some changes to >> > >> >>SConstruct -- it will not automatically detect MSVC or MinGW, it >> > defaults >> > >> >>to >> > >> >>MinGW but you can override that by setting withMinGW=0. If you do >> build >> > >> >>with >> > >> >>MSVC you have to first copy custom-msvc.py over custom.py, also. >> Anyway, >> > >> >>everything builds and runs as before. >> > >> >> >> > >> >>Best, >> > >> >>Mike >> > >> >> >> > >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> > >> >>From: "Dr. Richard Boulanger" >> > >> >>To: "Developer discussions" >> > >> >>Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:40 PM >> > >> >>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Happy Birthday to DrB >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > John, >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > THANKS SO MUCH >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > -dB >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:17 PM, >> > >> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> >> and as a small present, I have just release Csound 5.04 >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> At present we are missing the Windows build, but hej! today is his >> > >> >> >> birthday. >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> Many Happy Returns >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> ==John ffitch >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> >> >> --- >> > >> >> >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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