Windows build problems with current svn.

Has anyone been able to build a working R29939 binary for Windows?

I was able to build it (eventually, after seeing Wiso's instructions about the libraries being built in the main project) but it doesn't seem to work. It starts but doesn't crash. The last entries in the log are cpluff loading the new default addons. Then nothing. No window. Nothing. I'm forced to kill the process, leaving me with a zero-byte crashlog. I have some changes that are not upstream but I doubt they are related. (Tomorrow, I'll force complete sync to svn as a test though.)

And fyi, there's an issue building lame_enc.dll. The configMS.h file needs to be renamed to config.h or it wont build, which is surprising as I would've expected something like this:


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I backed out all my changes, did a full sync, and even used the BuildSetup.bat to build which I almost never do. I've poured over the svn logs and can't figure out what I'm missing. I'm stumped and I bet it's something rather silly and trivial.

Should building the full project produce system/libexpat.dll in addition to system/players/dvdplayer/libexpat-1.dll? I only get libexpat-1.dll. I've tried putting the actual libexpat.dll binary in system as well as copying and renaming libexpat-1.dll. Both produce the same problem. And Xbmc just crashes immediately if system/libexpat.dll is missing entirely.

I had to replace %CUR_PATH% with "..\.." and %XBMC_PATH% with "..\..\..\.." in fontconfig_d.bat and libexpat_d.bat to get the download scripts to work on my system.

Hmm... I didn't have that problem. The getDeps.bat file worked correctly. It just wgets and extracts fontconfig and expat into include and lib folders. VS 2008 Express was able to compile without issue (after fixing config.h for LAME that is). It certainly would barf if it couldn't find the fontconfig and expat header files. It seems like it's building the complete solution, but XBMC.exe just hangs right after cpluff loads the default addons (some scrapers and the Confluence and PM3HD skins.)

maybe his batch is crashing before the wget? it works for me, but does echo an error message.

Debug Directx builds and runs fine for me on current svn, no changes necessary to build.

Release Directx does not build.

same error as you before your changes?

Nuka,

I've been building release. I don't have any problems with expat or fontconfig. They are definitely being fetched as I can build the entire solution without errors, but the executable just hangs on me. I'll try a debug build this evening for comparison.

To build lame, you need to add a executable path to VS to nasmw.exe. Wiso dropped it in trunk/tools/Win32BuildTools/nasmw.exe. After, you may get the errors about config.h missing.

thanks, i give release a try then.

i know you didn't have any problems with the builddep.bat. thought it may be an issue for the other person. but looking again at his fix, doesn't sound like it. though the & still should be escaped.

So, you produced a fully working debug release binary (sans lame)? The last working version I had was after the addons merge but before the dll's were pulled from trunk and compiled in the solution. Since the dll's rarely change, I may try pulling them from an old rev and dropping them in one at a time until i can get a working release binary.

ok here's what happens.

i first built debug directx. which built fine with no changes.

i then made the path change and release directx built fine.

what happened was, debug directx built the config.h file, so that's why release built fine after debug build.

release runs fine too. mp3's play. i did however run debug first which created all the databases and such.

this is running with the -p command line option.