Windows Build Error

[Amy Chapman]

> On 05/07/12 19:33, Amy Chapman wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was asked to submit this build error to the mailing list.
> >
> > I attempted to build LO from Master on Windows 7 x64 using Cygwin 1.71
> > and MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional, with the git repository in
> > C:\lo, using the LO patched version of make for Cygwin (3.82), and 
> using
> > these options for the autogen script: --with-max-jobs=4
> > --with-num-cpus=4 --with-vendor=Amy --disable-binfilter --with-help=no
> > --disable-mozilla --disable-xmlsec --with-ant-home=/WinAnt
> > --without-myspell-dicts --without-junit --enable-ccache --without-java
> > --disable-dependency-tracking
>
> by the way, --disable-dependency-tracking is a bad idea if you intend to
> modify the code.
>
> > My build failed with the error "fatal error RC1106: invalid option:
> > -ologo" when building sal. Make clean and making sal again did not
> > resolve the error.
> >
> > This is the tail end of my error log (link expires in 2 months):
> > http://pastebin.ca/2167431
>
> that is most odd; this can only be the -nologo in
> solenv/gbuild/platform/WNT_INTEL_MSC.mk line 674, but why would it be
> mangled to become -ologo?  (i don't have a MSVC build environment here.)
>
> can you try the following:
>
> 1. remove the line 674 with -nologo (i expect this to work)
>
> 2. leave -nologo in but remove line 671
>    "$(call gb_Helper_abbreviate_dirs,\" plus one closing parenthesis
>    at the end of line 678 "$(RCFILE) )"
>
> 3. revert commit c42a8d41afbd8c49b68046eeb8480e04d4f072c4
>
> which of these result in a working build in sal?  (best to try with
> "make sal.clean sal") 

Removing line 674 (-nologo /) made building sal work.

I am currently retrying the overall build.

Thank you for the warning about --disable-dependency-tracking; I do plan 
to edit the source code, but right now I'm trying to get a minimal build 
to work at all.

Thank you!
Amy