[Scilab-Dev] Failed to build Scilab with VC2008Express this week.

[fvogelnew1 at free.fr]

Well, there is this email that svn sends once a day to sum up daily changes in
the svn codebase.
Pierre could tell you better than I can.

Easier maybe: run svn update in the prerequirements directory before every
compilation attempt.

F.


Selon Yung-Jang Lee <yjlee123 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> After update prerequirements, I can build Scilab from source again.
>
> Is there any way or from any place that I know I need to update my
> prerequirements ?
>
> Yung-Jang Lee
>
> 2008/12/24 François Vogel <fvogelnew1 at free.fr>
>
> > The prerequirements are not migrated to GIT, they are still managed by SVN.
> > Pierre said they would never migrate because this would create a repository
> > of more than 3 GB. One of the main advantages that GIT puts forward is that
> > you have a full fledged repository in your hard disk, and this is fine and
> > realistic as long as you deal with text files that can easily be diff'ed
> and
> > the diff be compressed. Using GIT for versioning binary files looks it's
> not
> > the right tool.
> >
> > In short: update the prerequirements with svn, copy/paste then in the
> > up-to-date git repository, and compile the Scilab-f2c solution under VC2008
> > Express. This works for me.
> >
> > Good night.
> > F.
> >
> >
> > Yung-Jang Lee said on 23/12/2008 17:02:
> >
> >> I may have used the SVN version of  prerequirements  for GIT.
> >>
> >> I will download and test it tomorrow (it's midnight in Taiwan now).
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Yung-Jang Lee
> >>
> >> 2008/12/23 François Vogel <fvogelnew1 at free.fr <mailto:fvogelnew1 at free.fr
> >> >>
> >>
> >>    Did you follow the steps described here:
> >>
> >>    http://wiki.scilab.org/Visual_Studio_C%2B%2B_2008_Express
> >>
> >>    Especially what this page is saying about prerequirements?
> >>
> >>    Did you try to clean and rebuild all?
> >>
> >>    F.
> >>
> >>
> >>    Yung-Jang Lee said on 23/12/2008 16:44:
> >>
> >>
> >>        ------ Build started: Project: pvm, Configuration: Release Win32
> >>        ------
> >>        Make dependencies
> >>        Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 9.00.21022.08
> >>        Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >>          Creating library
> >>        d:\Git\scilab\scilab\modules\pvm\LibScilab.lib and object
> >>        d:\Git\scilab\scilab\modules\pvm\LibScilab.exp
> >>        Linking...
> >>        LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBC.lib'
> >>        Build log was saved at
> >>        "file://d:\Git\scilab\scilab\modules\pvm\Release\BuildLog.htm"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>        2008/12/23 Yung-Jang Lee <yjlee123 at gmail.com
> >>        <mailto:yjlee123 at gmail.com> <mailto:yjlee123 at gmail.com
> >>        <mailto:yjlee123 at gmail.com>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>           I failed to build project pvm with 'Scilab_f2c' solution. I look
> >>           like pvm3 binaries (lib or dll)   in my system are build with
> >>        old VC
> >>           compiler that  need LIBC.lib to link.
> >>
> >>           May be I am not doing right way in downloading Scilab, I just
> >>
> >>           git pull
> >>
> >>           Am I right ?
> >>
> >>           Yung-Jang Lee
> >>
> >>           2008/12/23 François Vogel <fvogelnew1 at free.fr
> >>        <mailto:fvogelnew1 at free.fr>
> >>           <mailto:fvogelnew1 at free.fr <mailto:fvogelnew1 at free.fr>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>               Works for me today on the master up-to-date, with VC2008
> >>        Express
> >>               on WinXP.
> >>
> >>               And I can't find any occurrence of libc.lib in the compiled
> >>               scilab tree.
> >>
> >>               F.
> >>
> >>
> >>               Yung-Jang Lee said on 23/12/2008 14:59:
> >>
> >>                   Hi,
> >>
> >>                   I failed to build scilab this week with Windows Xp +
> >>        VC 2008
> >>                   Express.  It stops at building pvm related library with
> >>                   following message,
> >>                       LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> >>        'LIBC.lib'
> >>
> >>                   Since VC 2008 Express don't provide LIBC.lib anymore, it
> >>                   look like I must build pvm3 from source with VC2008
> >>        myself.
> >>
> >>
> >>                   Yung-Jang Lee
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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