Error building Visual Studio 2013 project file for LibreOffice on Windows

[Jesper Hertel]

I tried running make with the --debug parameter, and that gave this output,
if that is helpful:

$ /opt/lo/bin/make --debug vs2013-ide-integration
GNU Make 4.0
Built for Windows32
Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
GNU Make 4.0
Built for Windows32
Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File 'vs2013-ide-integration' does not exist.
Must remake target 'vs2013-ide-integration'.
cd C:/sources/libo-core && (LC_MESSAGES=C C:/cygwin/opt/lo/bin/make
cmd="C:/cygwin/opt/lo/
bin/make -npf Makefile.gbuild all" cmd || true) |
C:/sources/libo-core/bin/gbuild-to-ide -
-ide vs2013
make[1]: *** [cmd] Error 127
Solution LibreOffice:
Successfully remade target file 'vs2013-ide-integration'.


Jesper

2015-02-16 20:40 GMT+01:00 Jesper Hertel <jesper.hertel at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I just tried building LibreOffice for 32-bit Windows on a 64-bit Windows 7
> Home Premium machine using Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition.
>
> I have never built LibreOffice before, and I have carefully followed the
> instructions from
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows and
> used all the recommended settings and paths. My Cygwin is 64-bit and the
> used Java JDK is 32-bit.
>
> My autogen.input for building LibreOffice is this:
>
> --with-parallelism=2
> --disable-odk
> --with-junit=/cygdrive/c/sources/junit-4.10.jar
> --with-ant-home=/cygdrive/c/sources/apache-ant-1.9.4
> --with-jdk-home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.8.0_31
> --enable-pch
> --disable-ccache
> --disable-activex
> --disable-atl
>
> and I ran the build from the Cygwin bash shell using this command:
>
> ./autogen.sh && /opt/lo/bin/make
>
> with current directory being
>
> /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core
>
> which is the root of the tree cloned from git://
> gerrit.libreoffice.org/core.
>
> As instructed, I built directly to the source tree to get Visual Studio
> integration.
>
> After the first attempted builds failed, I pulled a more recent master
> that didn't fail on Tinkerbox, and I think the build succeeded then. There
> were no errors, but there were also no "Build successful" message or
> similar in the end. The output just ended with this:
>
> …
> [build SLC] sw
> [build SLC] libreoffice
> [build SLC] loaded modules: UnoControls accessibility accessories android
> animations apache-commons apple_remote avmedia basctl basebmp basegfx basic
> bean beanshell binaryurp boost bridges canvas chart2 clew cli_ure clucene
> codemaker coinmp collada2gltf comphelper configmgr connectivity cppcanvas
> cppu cppuhelper cppunit cpputools cui curl dbaccess desktop drawinglayer
> dtrans editeng embeddedobj embedserv eventattacher expat extensions
> external extras filter firebird forms formula fpicker framework glew glm
> graphite helpcompiler hsqldb hunspell hwpfilter hyphen i18nlangtag i18npool
> i18nutil icu idl idlc instsetoo_native iojavaunohelper jfreereport
> jpeg-turbo jurt jvmaccess jvmfwk l10ntools lcms2 libabw libcdr libcmis
> libebook libetonyek libexttextcat libfreehand libgltf liblangtag libmspub
> libmwaw libodfgen liborcus libpagemaker libpng librelogo libreoffice
> libreofficekit librevenge libvisio libwpd libwpg libwps libxml2 libxmlsec
> libxslt lingucomponent linguistic lotuswordpro lpsolve mdds more_fonts
> msc-externals mythes neon nss o3tl offapi officecfg oovbaapi ooxopencl
> opencollada openssl package poppler postgresql postprocess python3 pyuno
> qadevOOo readlicense_oo redland registry remotebridges reportbuilder
> reportdesign rhino ridljar rscsal salhelper sax sc scaddins sccomp scp2
> scripting sd sdext setup_native sfx2 shell slideshow smoketest solenv
> soltools sot starmath stoc store svgio svl svtools svx sw swext sysui test
> testtools toolkit tools tubes ucb ucbhelper ucpp udkapi unodevtools unoidl
> unoil unotest unotools unoxml ure uui vbahelper vcl vigra winaccessibility
> wizards writerfilter writerperfect xmerge xmlhelp xmloff xmlreader
> xmlscript xmlsecurity zlib
>
> But after that, it was possible to start LibreOffice Dev
> using C:\sources\libo-core\instdir\program\soffice.exe, so I guess the
> build was successful???
>
> Then I tried to build the Visual Studio 2013 solution file using
>
> /opt/lo/bin/make vs2013-ide-integration
>
> with current directory being /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core.
>
> That gave me this entire output:
>
> cd C:/sources/libo-core && (LC_MESSAGES=C C:/cygwin/opt/lo/bin/make
> cmd="C:/cygwin/opt/lo/bin/make -npf Makefile.gbuild all" cmd || true) |
> C:/sources/libo-core/bin/gbuild-to-ide --ide vs2013
> make[1]: *** [cmd] Error 127
> Solution LibreOffice:
>
> After that, the LibreOffice.sln file is 353 bytes and only contains this:
>
> Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
> Global
> GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
> Unit Tests|Win32 = Unit Tests|Win32
> Integration tests|Win32 = Integration tests|Win32
> Build|Win32 = Build|Win32
> EndGlobalSection
> GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
> EndGlobalSection
> EndGlobal
>
> and there are no other recently created *.sln files in the entire
> source/build directory tree.
>
> The error from make (Error 127) is not so helpful and gives me no clue to
> what is wrong.
>
> Does anybody know what could be wrong?
>
> I would really like to be able to use the comfort of Visual Studio to
> browse around the source code.
>
> Best regards,
> Jesper
>
>
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