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Building NVDA for 64 bit fails on Windows 7 32 bit, MSVC 2010 #2508

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jul 5, 2012 · 6 comments
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Building NVDA for 64 bit fails on Windows 7 32 bit, MSVC 2010 #2508

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jul 5, 2012 · 6 comments
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Reported by mherrmann.at on 2012-07-05 16:11
I'm having trouble building the 64 bit version of the current development version of NVDA. My system is:

  • Windows 7 Professional SP 1 32 bit
  • Visual Studio 2010 Professional.

Building for 32 bit works fine:

scons dist targetArchitectures=x86

When I just do

scons dist

then I get an error dialog saying "The program can't start because mspdb100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.". Calling vcvarsall using the command
call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
gets rid of this error dialog, however results in a lot of unresolved externals (see attached file "unresolved externals.txt").

All problems go away when I comment out the following the following lines in site_scons\site_tools\windowsSdk.py:

    ...
    #msvc.msvc_setup_env_once=lambda env: False
    #msvc.msvc_exists=lambda: True
    ...
    #env['MSVC_USE_SCRIPT']=False
    ...

This change is in the attached file "windowsSdk_fixed.patch".

Should I switch to a different version of Visual Studio? I failed to find any documentation on the recommended Visual Studio version.
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Attachment unresolved externals.txt added by mherrmann.at on 2012-07-05 16:11
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Attachment windowsSdk_fixed.patch added by mherrmann.at on 2012-07-05 16:12
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Comment 1 by mdcurran on 2012-07-05 23:04
We only officially support Windows SDK 7.0 and 7.1. Windows SDK comes with all compilers and tools needed.
There may be conflicts trying to use both Windows SDK and VS.
I understand this is not a great situation, but it does work okay for the majority building NVDA.
Scons's support for Windows SDK 7.1 is currently broken hense the need for our custom windowsSDK scons tool. If the problem gets fixed in scons then we can remove this tool and perhaps VS may work again, though I'm not sure.
Leaving this ticket open as it crtainly would be nice to improve this situation at some point.
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Comment 3 by mherrmann.at on 2012-07-06 09:13
I see. I uninstalled VS and all Windows SDKs, then re-installed Windows SDK 7.1 and everything works now. Thank you.

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Comment 4 by nvdakor on 2012-10-17 17:54
I think we may need to put this into source readme - to NOT install compilers shipping with SDK 7.0 if they already have VS2008 or 2010 installed on their systems.

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jcsteh commented Jun 23, 2016

No longer relevant, as we now only support Visual Studio 2015 and there's no longer a separate SDK tool chain.

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