[Spice-devel] Problems compiling SPICE Windows client SDK 7.1

[John A. Sullivan III]

Hello, all.  Being a Windows ignoramus, I am having a nightmare of a
time compiling the Windows client on our Windows 7 build system.  I'll
recount them for other ignorami and to ask for help for the things I
could not figure out.

I installed the Windows SDK 7.1 and it installed without compilers
because we had .net 3.5 installed.  I installed 4.0 and reinstalled the
SDK and I know had compilers.

The build instructions under Windows say, "The prerequisites are
available as binaries in one package on the download page." However, I
did not see such a binary on the download page.

I downloaded spice-0.8.1, spice-protocol-0.8.0, and wspice-x64_20110308.
I then did:

setenv /Release /x64 /win7

set REDC_BUILD_DIR=D:\Binaries\x64\Win7
set SPICE_PROTOCOL_DIR=C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice
\spice-protocol-0.8.0
set SPICE_LIBS=C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\wspice-x64_08032011

C:
cd \Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows
redc.sln

It had no idea of what to do with the file - no association.

Some Internet research, reading the SDK Release Notes, and a little
while later and I did:
msbuild -p:platform=X64 redc.sln

It complained that it could not find vcbuild.exe.

Some more research and I found that the 7.1 SDK uses msbuild and that it
takes a different syntax than vcbuild.  It provides vcupgrade to convert
the .vcproj files into .vcxproj files but does not convert /sln files.
devenv does but that is not in the SDK and must be included with the
full Visual Basic I am guessing.  So, the instructions said to manually
edit the .sln files to use 2010 instead of 2008 and reference .vcxproj
files instead of .vcproj files.  So, I ran vcupgrade on redc.vcproj,
edited redc.sln and tried again.  Same failure message about
vcbuild.exe.

I then looked more closely at the .sln file and it looked like it was
merely specifying the build environment options which are no longer
necessary with msbuild using the -p:platform= parameter (or so I read)
so I tried to simply do msbuild -p:platform=X64 redc.vcxproj.  That
complained about not finding python.  So it looks like python is called
in generate.bat.  I installed python and it failed again - python was
not in the path.  So I added it to the path, opened an new SDK shell and
tried again.  Now I get:

C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows>msbuild -p:platform=X64 redc.vcxproj
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 4.0.30319.1
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 4.0.30319.1]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.

Build started 7/4/2011 8:07:48 PM.
Project "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows\redc.vcxproj" on node 1 (default targets).
InitializeBuildStatus:
  Touching "D:\Binaries\x64\Win7\X64\Release\redc.unsuccessfulbuild".
CustomBuild:
  Generating demarshaller
    File "..\..\spice_codegen.py", line 200
      print "No changes to %s" % dest_file
                             ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    File "..\..\spice_codegen.py", line 200
      print "No changes to %s" % dest_file
                             ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1
51,5): error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 1. [C:\Users\Administrator\Dow
nloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows\redc.vcxproj]
Done Building Project "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\clien
t\windows\redc.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.


Build FAILED.

"C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows\redc.vcxproj
" (default target) (1) ->
(CustomBuild target) ->
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets
(151,5): error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 1. [C:\Users\Administrator\D
ownloads\spice\spice-0.8.1\client\windows\redc.vcxproj]

    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.65

I'm assuming the code is correct and I have done something wrong.  How
do I compile the Windows client in my environment? Thanks - John