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14th January 2007 23:45 UTC

SCons building errors
Can't install NSIS from source code on windows as described in "install" file inside source distribution archive. Using Python 2.4.2 and latest SCons 0.96.94

E:\InProc\MinGW_NSIS\NSIS_orig>scons PREFIX="E:\ENV\NSIS" install
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Delete("nsis-14-Jan-2007.cvs")
Delete(".instdist")
Delete(".test")
Using Microsoft tools configuration
Checking for memset requirement... (cached) no
Checking for C library gdi32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library user32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library pthread... (cached) no
Checking for C library stdc++... (cached) no
Checking for C library iconv... (cached) no
Checking for C library version... (cached) yes
Checking for C library dl... (cached) no
Checking for C library gdi32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library iconv... (cached) no
Checking for C library user32... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library cppunit... (cached) no
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
Install file: "COPYING" as "E:\ENV\NSIS\COPYING"
Install file: "nsisconf.nsh" as "E:\ENV\NSIS\nsisconf.nsh"
scons: *** Source `['build\release\stub_bzip2\stub_bzip2.exe']' not found, needed by target `E:\ENV\NSIS\Stubs\bzip2'. Stop.
scons: building terminated because of errors.

E:\InProc\MinGW_NSIS\NSIS_orig>dir build\release\stub_bzip2\stub_bzip2.exe
Volume in drive E is PILE
Volume Serial Number is 448F-2F87

Directory of E:\InProc\MinGW_NSIS\NSIS_orig\build\release\stub_bzip2

15.01.2007 01:34 34 816 stub_bzip2.exe
1 File(s) 34 816 bytes
0 Dir(s) 59 688 910 848 bytes free

Comm@nder21
15th January 2007 15:29 UTC

seems that nsis has notbeen compiled yet
i dont get that error.

you may try this one:

>scons dist

kichik
16th January 2007 18:35 UTC

Downgrade to SCons 0.96.93.

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16th January 2007 19:49 UTC

"scons dist" doesn't work with scons-0.96.94 - yields in the message below.
scons-0.96.93 work ok - thanks kichik

E:\InProc\MinGW_NSIS\NSIS_orig>scons dist
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Delete("nsis-16-Jan-2007.cvs")
Delete(".instdist")
Delete(".test")
Using Microsoft tools configuration
Checking for memset requirement... (cached) no
Checking for C library gdi32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library user32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library pthread... (cached) no
Checking for C library stdc++... (cached) no
Checking for C library iconv... (cached) no
Checking for C library version... (cached) yes
Checking for C library dl... (cached) no
Checking for C library gdi32... (cached) yes
Checking for C library iconv... (cached) no
Checking for C library user32... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ library cppunit... (cached) no
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: *** Source `Contrib\Library\RegTool\['RegTool\RegTool.bin']' not found, needed by target `nsis-16-Jan-2007.cvs\Bin\RegToo
l.bin']'. Stop.
scons: building terminated because of errors.

kichik
16th January 2007 21:34 UTC

I've fixed the compatibility issues with 0.96.94 in CVS. It should now work with both 93 and 94.

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18th January 2007 07:34 UTC

I'll wait for release, because I'd like to to see if this patch http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...49&atid=373087
would be integrated.