First-time build error

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

Thanks for pointing this out. The wiki instructions have now been clarified.

Ilmari

On 26.2.2021 5.53, W T wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> I'm relatively new as well and had the same problem a few weeks ago.
> In my case, Al.exe is part of .NET Framework 4.8 SDK.
> So I solved the problem by going back to the Visual Studio Installer and 
> modifying the installation
> to include .NET Framework 4.8 SDK.  I chose this because it was the 
> latest version available on my installer.
> Also, be sure to include Windows Universal C Runtime.
> 
> I found out that when I chose "Desktop development with C++" workload, 
> .NET Framework 4.8 SDK
> and Windows Universal C Runtime were not included. You can go to the 
> "Individual components" tab in
> the "Modifying" window and select them manually.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Winston Tjong
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:53 PM Alan Frank <alan at 8wheels.org 
> <mailto:alan at 8wheels.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I am a new developer, trying to get started.  Ilmari provided a
>     bunch of
>     resources; I installed lots of software and got to the point where I
>     thought I was ready to build.  I entered the command and options from
>     the instructions:
> 
>     /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core
>     $   /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core/autogen.sh \
>                     
>     --with-external-tar=/cygdrive/c/sources/lo-externalsrc \
>                      --with-junit=/cygdrive/c/sources/junit-4.10.jar \
>                      --with-ant-home=/cygdrive/c/sources/apache-ant-1.9.5 \
>                      --enable-pch --disable-ccache
> 
>     After lots of successful assertions, I ran into this error:
> 
>     checking for al.exe... configure: error: al.exe not found as /al.exe
>     Error running configure at /cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core/autogen.sh
>     line
>     316.
> 
>     Line 316: system ("./configure", @args) && die "Error running
>     configure";
> 
>     The file al.exe does not exist anywhere on my machine.  A web search
>     suggests that it comes with the MS Visual Studio install and lives in
>     C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 (even though there are
>     also folders for v3.0, v3.5, and v4.0.30319).  I did that as part of my
>     install, and the directory has 185 files, but no al.exe.  I was not
>     able
>     to find any trustworthy place to just download al.exe.
> 
>     --Alan
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