Boost build problem from SVN-head

[Frank Warmerdam]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to build the third party stuff for FDO from SVN head and I
> get the following:
> 
> Project 
> "C:\warmerda\fdocore\Thirdparty\boost_1_32_0\boost_1_32_0.vcproj" (Build 
> target(s)):
> 
> Target Build:
>     C:\warmerda\fdocore\Thirdparty\boost_1_32_0\boost_1_32_0.vcproj : 
> warning MSB4098: MSBuild is invoking VCBuild to build this project. 
> Project-to-project references between VC++ projects (.VCPROJ) and 
> C#/VB/VJ# projects (.CSPROJ, .VBPROJ, .VJSPROJ) are not supported by the 
> command-line build systems when building stand-alone VC++ projects. 
> Projects that contain such project-to-project references will fail to 
> build. Please build the solution file containing this project instead.
>     C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
> 8\Common7\IDE\..\..\vc\vcpackages\vcbuild.exe 
> C:\warmerda\fdocore\Thirdparty\boost_1_32_0\boost_1_32_0.vcproj 
> "debug|Win32"
>     Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from 
> "Performing Makefile project actions"
> Done building target "Build" in project "boost_1_32_0.vcproj" -- FAILED.
> 
> 
> I tried using visual studio but this didn't seem to work.  Does anyone have
> a suggestion on what I need to do?

Folks,

In follow up to my own problem:

  o The warning MSB4098 is normal and not really a problem.

  o I looked in the boost\BuildLog.htm (with a real browser since it is in
    some sort of funky 16bit character set) and saw an "Access Error" though
    without any indication of on what.  But I also saw that "bjam" was being
    executed to do the build.

  o I tried running bjam.exe and got an access error.  It seems my Cygwin
    SVN client extracted the executable without execute permissions for some
    reason.

When I set execute permission on the .exe things worked ok.

So lessons:

  o If there are things like .exe's in SVN there are some limitations on what
    SVN clients will work properly.  With MapGuide I found the Cygwin svn was
    unable to handle some character set conversion problem on checkout and I
    had to upgrade to TortiseSVN.  Perhaps we need some note about this
    somewhere?

  o In MSBUILD problems, do dig into the BuildLog.htm to find out what is going
    wrong.

  o Perhaps we could have the build scripts include an action to make .exe
    files executable to work around this sort of problem.

Now, on to figure out why my actual fdo build isn't working.  Somehow I
always pick the wrong way to do things!

Best regards,
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