SCons can't find cl when building TideSDK on Win8 w/ VS2010 - scons

I am following the directions on https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki/Windows7-x86-2010-Express, but when running:
scons debug=1
I get errors about SCons not being able to find cl so I added the following to SContruct:
if build.is_win32():
subprocess.call(path_to_vcvars32.bat)
But I am still getting the error:
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
scons: *** [build\win32\objs\installer\common.obj] Error 1
Any thoughts on why SCons can't find cl?

calling a windows batch file will execute it in its own shell so any environment variables it might set will be set in that shell and then forgotten. They won't be propogated to the scons environment, and even if they were, they'd go into the wrong place.
This bit:
Add the following to your PATH environment variable:
C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin
(and possibly running the batch file) need to be done before you run scons

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Using a very helpful thread here and these steps, I added make to my path (as C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\make.exe).When I call $Path this shows up. However when I try to run make S4_pyext in cmd.exe which I run from Anaconda3, I get an error
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I thought I may have not added make to the path correctly so ran
"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\make.exe" S4_pyext
Instead which resulted in an error
mkdir -p build A subdirectory or file -p already exists. Error occurred while processing: -p. A subdirectory or file build already exists. Error occurred while processing: build. make: *** [objdir] Error 1
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getting Cygwin to know about microsoft cl and nmake?

I am trying to compile the Fortran runtime library (f2c) in Cygwin using this command: nmake -f makefile.vc all
Per instruction given in the package, first I have to let Cygwin know about Microsoft cl compiler and nmake. How can I do this in Cygwin?
I already added vcvarsall.bat to the Cygwin.bat file but I don't know what I can do for nmake. At this moment, I get this error: -bash nmake: command not found
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Add this line with the correct path to the end of the file:
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After that a new cygwin terminal should be started, in which you can use nmake command.

CMAKE, NMAKE makefiles - 'compiler cl not found' (but VS 12 generator succeeds)

The VS environment variable is set beforehand with vcvars32.bat, and VS is the only compiler that I use; the OS is win 7.
The error happens with cmake-gui; specifying the compiler with path results in error 'compiler failed to make simple test'; alternatively, cmake -i from command line succeeds initially with presenting an 'options' menu which then fails to allocate a 'cmakelists.txt' file (which is somewhere deeper in the cmake folder).
Where am I going wrong?
(I continued with building the solution files from VS 12, but there's other issues.)
The answer to your question from cmake mailing list
Run cmake-gui FROM the target environment, just like you run cmake...
i.e. : type "cmake-gui" in the cmd prompt that has your stuff set up
in it. Don't just launch it from a short-cut unless you're using the
"Visual Studio *" generators. Those do not need any special
environment. Many of the makefile ones do.

MSB4019 from VS2012 solution when building on Jenkins

I'm setting up our build server. I've installed Jenkins on a Windows 7 machine and am running into problems when building the 64 bit version of our solution.
We're using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop. Jenkins uses the MSBuild plugin and is targeting the 64 bit MSbuild exe at
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
However, when it runs msbuild an evironment variable is not being parsed properly. VCTargetsPath.
If I leave everything as-is then the output of MSBuild is this
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
I played around a bit with the VCTargetsPath variables in the registry, Windwos Environment Variables and as Jenkins Eviornment Variables too. I noticed this behavior.
If I set VCTargetsPath to be "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110" then the output of msbuild is the same as above. However, if I set it to "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0" then the output changes to this.
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\progra~2\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
The tile Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props is found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110" I checked the limits on environment variable length and it's supposed to be 2048 characters. Am I missing something obvious here? I've found some info that basically says I am going to have to reinstall everything in a specific order, which is quite annoying (but also very Microsofty).
I fixed this by adding
/p:VCTargetsPath="C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120"
or the more elegant
/p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0
into
Build > Build a Visual Studio project or solution using MSBuild > Command Line Arguments
Your first round of fix-it attempts for a build server.
Install the appropriate SDK on the build machine.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
If that doesn't work, report back.
EDIT:
/p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0
Add that to your command line...as a parameter for msbuild.exe
EDIT:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
I have a 64 bit version of msbuild.exe there.
Which isn't what you show.
I'm throwing a guess out, nothing concrete, FYI.
Try passing : /p:PlatformTarget=x86 as one of the arguments to MSBuild.

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'Windows.h': and scons

Today is officially my first day with C++ :P
I've downloaded Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 SP1, because I want to get my hands on the open source Enso Project.
So, after installing scons I went to the console and tried to compile it using scons, but I got this error:
C:\oreyes\apps\enso\enso-read-only\src\platform\win32\Include\WinSdk.h(64) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'Windows.h': No such file or directory
scons: *** [src\platform\win32\InputManager\AsyncEventProcessorRegistry.obj] Error 2
scons: building terminated because of errors.
After checking these links:
VS ans PSDK
Include tiffi.h
Wndows.h
I've managed to configure my installation like this:
And even run this script
And I managed to compile the file below in the IDE.
// Test.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <Windows.h>
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
return 0;
}
But I still get that exception in the console. Does anyone have scons experience?
EDIT
Actually (and I forgot to tell you this) I started the command prompt with the link "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt".
I assume this will include the paths in environment variables. Well after printing them I find that it didn't:
echo %INCLUDE%
echo %LIB%
echo %PATH%
And they were not present, so I created this .bat file:
set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin"
set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;"C:\ Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include"
set LIB=%LIB%;"C:\ Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib"
Still, scons seeems not to take the vars... :(
Using the above recommendations will not work with scons: scons does not import the user environment (PATH and other variables). The fundamental problem is that scons does not handle recent versions of SDKs/VS .
I am an occasional contributor to scons, and am working on this feature ATM. Hopefully, it will be included soon in scons, but the feature is much harder to implement reliably than I first expected, partly because every sdk/compiler combination is different (and sometimes even MS does not get it right, some of their .bat files are broken), so I can't give you a date. I hope it will be included in 1.2 (to be released in approximatively one month).
You need to set the include file path (and possibly other things). At the command line this is typically done using a batch file that Visual Studio installs called vsvars32.bat (or vcvars32.bat for compatibility with VC6).
I'm not familiar with scons so I don't know the best way to get these settings configured for that tool, but for standard makefiles there's usually a line in the makefile which sets a macro variable with the include directory path and that macro is used as part of a command line parameter in the command that invokes the compiler.
Another possibility might be to have the scons process invoke vsvars32.bat or run the scons script from a command line that has been configured with the batch file.
In short you need to get the things that vsvars32.bat configures into the scons configuration somehow.
There will be a batch file similar to this one (for MSVC 2005) that sets up the environment variables:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
Step 1: Find a similar file in the Express installation folders
Step 2: Create a shortcut on the desktop with these target details and a suitably modified path:
cmd.exe /K "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
Step 3: Open the DOS prompt via this shortcut
The command line build should now work from within this console window.
You show us how you configured Visual Studio for compilations within Visual Studio but you didn't show us what command line environment you tried. Sorry I haven't tried Express versions so I don't know if they create additional Start menu shortcuts like Pro and above do. If you open a suitable command prompt with its environment variables already set then you can compile on the command line. Otherwise you have to set variables yourself or execute a batch script to set them, each time you open a command prompt.
It'll be nice when scons does this automatically. For now, I use this (run from an SDK command prompt, not sure if there is a difference if run after vsvars32.bat):
import os
env = Environment(ENV={'PATH': os.environ['PATH']})
env['ENV']['TMP'] = os.environ['TMP']
env.AppendUnique(CPPPATH=os.environ['INCLUDE'].split(';'))
env.AppendUnique(LIBPATH=os.environ['LIB'].split(';'))
This works for me while compiling wxwidgets with Visual C++ 2005 Express using the command line prompt:
REM Fix Error error C1083 'windows.h'
(Use /useenv option when compiling.)
set PDSKWIN=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2
(Change to the right one.)
set INCLUDE=%PDSKWIN%\Include;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%PDSKWIN%\Lib;%LIB%
Then I use this line when compiling. I believe just add /useenv to your lines and everything should work fine:
vcbuild /useenv /nohtmllog /nologo name.proj (or any file to compile)

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