Re: Error with generate.bat

[Martin Sebor <se...@roguewave.com>]

Anton, this is from stdcxx-user. Could you look into improving
the error message when you have a chance? (When you do, please
assign the Jira issue I created for this problem to yourself
and track progress there.)

Thanks
Martin

PS You might also want to subscribe to stdcxx-user :)

Martin Sebor wrote:
> Sergio A. Reyes-Peniche wrote:
> 
>> Windows 2000 sp4, with WSH upgraded to version 5.6
>> stdcxx-4.1.3
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to generate the makefiles for stdcxx-4.1.3, and I keep
>> getting this error message:
>>
>> D:\stdcxx-4.1.3>generate /BUILDDIR:D:\stdcxx-4.1.3\build /CONFIG:VC71
>> Solution generation script
>> Checking arguments...
>> Building directory tree created
>> Checking consistence...
>> Creating projects...
>> D:\stdcxx-4.1.3\etc\config\windows\generate.wsf(17, 6) WshShell.Exec:
>> The system cannot
>> find the file specified.
>>
>> That line and char number correspond to the initial xml section of
>> generate.wsf, not to any line of jscript code, and I can't track down
>> the real error. I don't have MSVC 7.1 installed, only version 6 (I
>> intend to try and build stdcxx with this and other compilers, to see
>> how far the build goes, what kind of errors there are, and what level
>> of template support does stdcxx require). Is this the origin of the
>> error?
> 
> 
> Only MSVC 7.1 works with the infrastructure in 4.1.3. Getting MSVC
> 8.0 to work isn't difficult -- you simply use the Visual Studio 8.0
> conversion wizard to convert the solution (and tweak a few compiler
> options). But since the solution format is incompatible between
> different versions of Visual Studio there is no way to go back
> from 7.1 to 6.0. I suspect that adding support for MSVC 6 would be
> a challenge (AFAIK, no one has tried it, even though the library
> itself was tested with the compiler not too long ago).
> 
> I tried MSVC 6 and ran into the same error. It was caused by my
> PATH environment variable missing a directory containing the uuidgen
> utility that the infrastructure needs. With uuidgen in my PATH the
> script successfully generated the MSVC 7.1 solution and all the
> projects. The utility comes with MSVC 8 but I'm sure you can
> download it separately as well. As I said, though, the 7.1 solution
> will not work with 6.0.
> 
> That being said, the error message in this case is not descriptive
> enough and should be improved. I created an issue in our bug tracking
> database to make sure we don't forget:
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-133
> 
> Martin