<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="WordSection1"> Hello Boris,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> First thanks for making build2!<o:p></o:p> It looks very promising!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I bootstrapped version 0.4.0 on Windows - though it was a rough ride. I had to resort to the manual steps which you describe in the installation document (<a href="https://build2.org/build2-toolchain/doc/build2-toolchain-install.xhtml">https://build2.org/build2-toolchain/doc/build2-toolchain-install.xhtml</a>). And I ran into several problems like these:<o:p></o:p> * Problem: msys64\usr\bin\gzip.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap base mismatch detected<o:p></o:p> Solution: Remove \msys64\usr\bin from path due to some cygwin version incompatibilities (cygwin1.dll)<o:p></o:p> * Copy missing dll's from the build2-build directory tree to the build2/bin folder<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> But now I am eager to try out the latest development versions of build2 especially the new parallel build support. <o:p></o:p> I cloned and updated the toolchain repo with its subrepo's. But I couldn't figure out how to successfully build the latest version of master (aka 0.5.0-a1).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Here is a summary of what I tried:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I first tried to copy the bootstrap folder to have a new build2-toolchain- 0.5.0-a1 filled with updated files from the toolchain Git repo, which didn’t work well with the bpkg command.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Then I tried to execute build-mingw.bat in the toolchain Git repo. <o:p></o:p> First I got errors referring to problems with the doc build targets. Looks like a problem you only get on the Windows platform:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> build2\b-boot config.cxx=c:\Tools\mingw-w64\mingw64\bin\g++.exe config.bin.lib=static<o:p></o:p> error: no rule to update doc{INSTALL}<o:p></o:p> info: re-run with --verbose 4 for more information<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule alias to update dir{.\}<o:p></o:p> error: no rule to update doc\doc{build2-build-system-manual-letter.ps}<o:p></o:p> info: re-run with --verbose 4 for more information<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule alias to update dir{doc\}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule alias to update dir{.\}<o:p></o:p> […]<o:p></o:p> info: failed to update dir{.\}<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Then I manually removed the doc targets out of every buildfile. <o:p></o:p> Then options.*xx files were missing inside the libodb-sqlite folder and had to be substituted from the folder containing the 0.4.0 bootstrap. E.g. see below.<o:p></o:p> Also lots of files were missing in the bpkg folder. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> build2\build2\b-boot --verbose 4 install <o:p></o:p> […]<o:p></o:p> error: no rule to update (for install) C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\details\hxx{options.hxx}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule cxx.link to update (for install) C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\libs{odb-sqlite.dll}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule bin.lib to update (for install) C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\lib{odb-sqlite}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule install.alias to update (for install) dir{C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule install.alias to update (for install) dir{C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\}<o:p></o:p> info: while applying rule install.alias to update (for install) dir{C:\build2-toolchain\}<o:p></o:p> c:\Tools\mingw-w64\mingw64\bin\g++.exe -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb -DLIBODB_BUILD2 -DLIBODB_SHARED -IC:\build2-toolchain\libsqlite3\sqlite3 -DSQLITE_API=__declspec(dllimport) -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite -DLIBODB_SQLITE_BUILD2 -DLIBODB_SQLITE_SHARED_BUILD -std=c++0x -M -MG -MQ ^ C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\database.cxx<o:p></o:p> c:\Tools\mingw-w64\mingw64\bin\g++.exe -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb -DLIBODB_BUILD2 -DLIBODB_STATIC -IC:\build2-toolchain\libsqlite3\sqlite3 -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite -IC:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite -DLIBODB_SQLITE_BUILD2 -DLIBODB_SQLITE_STATIC_BUILD -std=c++0x -M -MG -MQ ^ C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\database.cxx<o:p></o:p> trace: cxx::compile::inject: non-existent header 'odb\sqlite\details\options.hxx'<o:p></o:p> trace: cxx::compile::inject: mapped as auto-generated C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\details\options.hxx<o:p></o:p> trace: cxx::compile::inject: non-existent header 'odb\sqlite\details\options.hxx'<o:p></o:p> trace: cxx::compile::inject: mapped as auto-generated C:\build2-toolchain\libodb-sqlite\odb\sqlite\details\options.hxx<o:p></o:p> info: failed to update (for install) dir{C:\build2-toolchain\}<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Still remaining problems:<o:p></o:p> I got lots of errors like this: #error ODB runtime version mismatch<o:p></o:p> And some of the substituted files from 0.4.0 obviously need newer versions.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Could you please include a section in the installation manual on how to build the latest development version on the master branch!?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks and kind regards, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Max<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>