goldy1064
23rd May 2007 19:44 UTC

NSIS 2.27 - NSIS Menu fails to link
I have followed all setup instructions in the NSIS Docs Appendix. I have wxWidgets 2.8.3; WXWIN is correctly set; Python 2.5.1; Scons 0.96.93; using a Visual Studio .NET 2003 terminal.

The compilation is fine, but I cannot get it to link:

cl /nologo /GS- /O1 /W3 /MD /EHsc /TP /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /D_CRT_NONSTDC_N
O_WARNINGS /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\include /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\lib\vc_libnsis\msw
/c "Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nsismenu.cpp" "/Fobuild\release\NSIS Menu\nsismen
u\nsismenu.obj"
nsismenu.cpp
cl /nologo /GS- /O1 /W3 /MD /EHsc /TP /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /D_CRT_NONSTDC_N
O_WARNINGS /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\include /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\lib\vc_libnsis\msw
/c "Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nslinks.cpp" "/Fobuild\release\NSIS Menu\nsismenu
\nslinks.obj"
nslinks.cpp
rc /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\inc
lude /IC:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\lib\vc_libnsis\msw "/fobuild\release\NSIS Menu\nsismen
u-rc.res" "Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nsismenu.rc"
link /nologo /opt:nowin98 /map "/OUT:build\release\NSIS Menu\NSIS.exe" /LIBPATH:
C:\wxWidgets-2.8.3\lib\vc_libnsis advapi32.lib comctl32.lib gdi32.lib shell32.li
b user32.lib wxbase28.lib wxmsw28_core.lib wxmsw28_html.lib "build\release\NSIS
Menu\nsismenu\nsismenu.obj" "build\release\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nslinks.obj" "buil
d\release\NSIS Menu\nsismenu-rc.res"
wxbase28.lib(baselib_filename.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _
_imp__CoCreateInstance@20 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall wxFile
Name::GetShortcutTarget(class wxString const &,class wxString &,class wxString *
)" (?GetShortcutTarget@wxFileName@@QAE_NABVwxString@@AAV2@PAV2@@Z)
wxmsw28_core.lib(corelib_app.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __
imp__OleUninitialize@0 referenced in function "void __cdecl wxOleUninitialize(vo
id)" (?wxOleUninitialize@@YAXXZ)
wxmsw28_core.lib(corelib_clipbrd.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbo
l __imp__OleUninitialize@0
wxmsw28_core.lib(corelib_app.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __
imp__OleInitialize@4 referenced in function "bool __cdecl wxOleInitialize(void)"
 (?wxOleInitialize@@YA_NXZ)

kichik
23rd May 2007 20:07 UTC

Add ole32 to libs in Contrib\NSIS Menu\SConscript and let me know if it works.

kichik
23rd May 2007 20:09 UTC

Actually, forget about that. You should rebuild wxWidgets with wxbuild.bat. Make sure you delete any intermediate files in the wxWidgets directory before you do that.

Nothing from OLE should be used, as wxUSE_OLE is defined as 0 in setup.h.

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 20:53 UTC

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I had already done that. I first tried with wxWidgets 2.8.3 and when that failed I tried with 2.8.0. When that also failed, I reverted back to 2.8.3.

kichik
23rd May 2007 20:59 UTC

Then try deleting everything, installing wxWidgets 2.8.4, running wxbuild.bat and compiling again. Somewhere along the way, a wrong setup.h has gotten into your previous build.

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 21:09 UTC

No change. Any ideas?

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 21:12 UTC

Actually, let me remove the NSIS directory and re-extract and give it one more try.

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 21:20 UTC

Nope, it's still not working.

kichik
23rd May 2007 22:47 UTC

It worked just fine for me yesterday with wxWidgets 2.8.4. OLE is definitly should not be used due to wxUSE_OLE and that specific code part that the compiler complains about is surrounded with #ifdef wxUSE_OLE. I don't know what's wrong with your build. There must be a stray setup.h laying around somewhere.

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 22:49 UTC

I'm currently re-installing my development applications and will try again...

kichik
23rd May 2007 22:51 UTC

Manually building wxWidgets while making sure it's using the correct setup.h will do. There's no need to reinstall everything.

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 22:54 UTC

So, which setup.h is the correct one? And where should it go?

goldy1064
23rd May 2007 23:19 UTC

I have been able to get it to build finally. When I ran the wxbuild.bat from Contrib\NSIS Menu\wx instead of from the root of the extracted NSIS directory, all worked fine.

Thanks for all the help kichik!

kichik
24th May 2007 00:32 UTC

Thanks, I've updated wxbuild.bat to check for that too.