I recently installed Visual C++ 8 Express, the Vista SDK, and MozillaBuild 1.2 on a brand-new Vista 64-bit operating system and computer. Unfortunately, MozillaBuild doesn't seem to like the environment it's been handed.
Launching start-msvc8.bat as an administrator, as the devmo page recommends, I notice it cannot locate the VC8 Express directory. When I manually set the VC8EXPRESSDIR environment variable, I got a different, but equally useless result: rxvt would start approximately 130 windows, and then all would collapse simultaneously, leaving me without a shell.
Any help that other Vista 64-bit developers could provide would be immensely appreciated.
On Apr 8, 11:08 am, Alex Vincent <ajvinc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Visual C++ 8 Express, the Vista SDK, and > MozillaBuild 1.2 on a brand-new Vista 64-bit operating system and > computer. Unfortunately, MozillaBuild doesn't seem to like the > environment it's been handed.
> Launching start-msvc8.bat as an administrator, as the devmo page > recommends, I notice it cannot locate the VC8 Express directory. When I > manually set the VC8EXPRESSDIR environment variable, I got a different, > but equally useless result: rxvt would start approximately 130 windows, > and then all would collapse simultaneously, leaving me without a shell.
> Any help that other Vista 64-bit developers could provide would be > immensely appreciated.
Try running Mozillabuild from a 32-bit command shell. AFAIK, it won't work in a real 64-bit environment.
Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Apr 9, 12:24 pm, Alex Vincent <ajvinc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ted Mielczarek wrote: >>> Try running Mozillabuild from a 32-bit command shell. AFAIK, it won't >>> work in a real 64-bit environment. >>> -Ted >> I'm not finding any clear indication of how to do that. I tried >> right-clicking on it and setting Compatibility mode to WinXP SP2, no >> difference.
After reinstalling VC8 into a different directory, now I find using the SysWOW64 cmd.exe, I consistently get the second problem I reported: 130-ish rxvt windows starting and then collapsing. So that problem's further downstream.
I find start-msvc8.bat gets to the last line before reaching this failure point, calling 'start "MSYS Shell - MSVC8 Environment" ...'.
Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Apr 8, 11:08 am, Alex Vincent <ajvinc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I recently installed Visual C++ 8 Express, the Vista SDK, and >> MozillaBuild 1.2 on a brand-new Vista 64-bit operating system and >> computer. Unfortunately, MozillaBuild doesn't seem to like the >> environment it's been handed.
>> Launching start-msvc8.bat as an administrator, as the devmo page >> recommends, I notice it cannot locate the VC8 Express directory. When I >> manually set the VC8EXPRESSDIR environment variable, I got a different, >> but equally useless result: rxvt would start approximately 130 windows, >> and then all would collapse simultaneously, leaving me without a shell.
>> Any help that other Vista 64-bit developers could provide would be >> immensely appreciated.
> Try running Mozillabuild from a 32-bit command shell. AFAIK, it won't > work in a real 64-bit environment.
Ted, does MozillaBuild 1.2 have the files referenced in cstrauss's comment, dated 2007-11-04 12:23 (immediately above it)? That might be a helpful clue to him, and help him fix msys upstream of us.
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