I guess I need a çrash courae on zproject, what files are the source that get generated into what.
Should I start looking at zproject itself? For example, what file is the source for that generated czmq\builds\msvc\vs2015\czmq.import.props? I need to understand that before I can proceed. I will be happy to fix the Windows build and even maintain it in the future, but I hate touching stuff and breaking the build for any platform, since I know how hard it is to fix it after the fact. Sent from my iPad. Regularly foiled by autocorrect. But duck it.. > On Mar 15, 2016, at 17:43, Kevin Sapper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Osiris, > > fixing the windows builds especially on appveyor would be great, given that > there hasn't been a single successful build since they were introduced. There > are a lot of contributors that know there way around Linux and in various > iterations build very solid buildfiles e.g. for autotools and cmake. The same > cannot be said for windows. In that regard the knowledge is spread very thin. > Thus it would be great if you could share your findings by opening issues or > PRs in the corresponding projects. Any problems that you can bring forward > are welcome, if you can deliver the solution as well even better :) > > Thanks! > > //Kevin > >> On Di, Mär 15, 2016 at 11:53 , Osiris Pedroso <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have some 20+ years of Windows development under my belt... still a newbie >> to the zeromq project and to open source volunteering in general though, so >> take my comments with a grain of salt. >> >> I have been fighting the same battle the last month or so. >> >> In the process I have updated some of the documentation to add Windows build >> steps, since they were outdated/incorrect. >> One thing that I noticed in several of the projects, is that you can run >> "CMAKE.exe ." in the main directory and get a solution created that you can >> use to build all tests and the core library as well. The SLN files that are >> checked in are only for the core library. This is not documented anywhere >> that I have seen yet. Found by inspection. >> >> This and the resistance to hold off on merging pull requests until after >> they at least build correctly for the platforms we have automated builds >> setup ends up making Windows a second class citizen. >> Even though we have automated builds enabled, the Windows build has been >> broken for quite a while. >> >> For example, zeromq/zyre won't link in Windows from source for this target: >> 1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: perf_local, Configuration: DebugLEXE >> Win32 ------ >> >> I tracked it down to this line in czmq\builds\msvc\vs2015\czmq.import.props: >> <PreprocessorDefinitions Condition="'$(Linkage-czmq)' == 'static' Or >> '$(Linkage-czmq)' == >> 'ltcg'">CZMQ_STATIC;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions> >> The line above tells the solution to use CZMQ_STATIC library for ltcg >> linkage, which should be dynamic, since all symbols are defined with >> __imp_XXX preamble indicating they come from a DLLIMPORT directive in the >> code. >> >> The file says it is generated by zproject and should not be hand edited: >> ################################################################################ >> # THIS FILE IS 100% GENERATED BY ZPROJECT; DO NOT EDIT EXCEPT EXPERIMENTALLY >> # >> # Please refer to the README for information about making permanent changes. >> # >> ################################################################################ >> By the way, this message would be greatly enhanced if it also listed which >> was the source file being processed when it was generated. By the way, what >> README is it talking about? This project's, zproject's, the one in the same >> directory as this file? >> >> This is the final line in that build for all targets in the Zyre project: >> ========== Build: 18 succeeded, 48 failed, 18 up-to-date, 0 skipped >> ========== >> From the error log, they seem to all be related to this one problem above. >> >> Earlier this week I proposed to have a build tagged when they complete >> successfully. Same approach could be used to tag when a build successfully >> runs the automated tests. Both of these would give a good indication on >> where to focus efforts to fix broken builds/code allowing one to at least >> start from a working base for each supported platform. >> The idea reception was lukewarm at best. >> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:31 AM Peter Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: >>> HI Pieter >>> >>> >>> >>My advice would be to build it yourself. >>> >>> Interesting advice. Does this imply anything about future windows support? >>> I'm also trying to support both Windows and Linux with my own project and I >>> have a lot of trouble getting various libraries to run on windows because >>> people just don't support windows as well anymore. I have version 4.0.4 >>> installed but there is no Visual Studio project to build it myself. Is >>> there a 'Build Guide' somewhere? Otherwise it is not clear what compiler >>> settings and macro definitions are required to build this. >>> >>> I'm happy with 4.0.4 for now because it does the job, so I have no >>> immediate need to upgrade, but I would like to get rid of the .DLL and link >>> to a .lib only, because the DLL just gets in the way. >>> >>> Thanks, Peter >>> >>> PS: ZeroMQ was a real life safer for me. Just being able to debug client >>> server applications from within a single executable is awsome and worth its >>> weight in gold. . So thanks for all that! >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> My advice would be to build it yourself. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Mark Studenka <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hello, >>>> > >>>> > I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a current 4.1.4 Window >>>> > installer >>>> > package available on the website. >>>> > >>>> > I'm attempting to upgrade to the latest stable release. Currently I'm >>>> > building my own packages on the unix based platforms but use the >>>> > pre-built >>>> > packages for Windows. Does a package exist and the web pages haven't >>>> > been >>>> > updated or do I need to build myself if I'd like a current Windows >>>> > package? >>>> > >>>> > Thanks for any help. >>>> > >>>> > -mark >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > zeromq-dev mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> zeromq-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zeromq-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
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