Author: wyoung
Date: Thu Aug 13 15:29:41 2009
New Revision: 2559
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/mysqlpp?rev=2559&view=rev
Log:
Clarified a few failure cases in VC++ x64 build instructions.
Modified:
trunk/README-Visual-C++.txt
Modified: trunk/README-Visual-C++.txt
URL:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/mysqlpp/trunk/README-Visual-C%2B%2B.txt?rev=2559&r1=2558&r2=2559&view=diff
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--- trunk/README-Visual-C++.txt (original)
+++ trunk/README-Visual-C++.txt Thu Aug 13 15:29:41 2009
@@ -98,14 +98,21 @@
- Pull the same list box down, say Edit..., and remove the Win32
build, unless you actually need both versions.
- It should then build, except that you may have to re-run the
- build a couple of times, due to errors about the build log being
- unwritable or locked. Just re-run the build until you get all of
- the projects to build. If re-running the build doesn't reduce
- the number of failures, you have something else wrong, perhaps
- due to not following the instructions above carefully. It might
- be simplest to just blow away the MySQL++ tree and try again.
- (I did once, while formulating these instructions...sigh.)
+ It should then build. If you get PRJ2009 errors, complaining
+ about BuildLog.htm, this is a bug in Visual Studio 2008's
+ new parallel build feature, which seems to affect x64 builds
+ more than x86. Sometimes you can get around it by just saying
+ "build" repeatedly, each time getting a few more modules built.
+ Or, you can disable the feature by going to Tools > Options... >
+ Projects and Solutions > Build and Run > # of parallel processes
+ and setting the value to 1.
+
+ If you don't follow the instructions above carefully, you can
+ end up with a completely unbuildable solution. (It happened
+ to me once when preparing these instructions!) If you simply
+ cannot seem to make it work, it's often simplest to just blow
+ away the MySQL++ source tree, unpack a fresh copy and try again,
+ paying more attention to the details.
Building the Library and Example Programs
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