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MozillaBuild on Vista x64: Launch issues

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Alex Vincent

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Apr 8, 2008, 11:08:23 AM4/8/08
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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.

Alex Vincent
San Jose, CA

Ted Mielczarek

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Apr 8, 2008, 3:31:16 PM4/8/08
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Try running Mozillabuild from a 32-bit command shell. AFAIK, it won't
work in a real 64-bit environment.

-Ted

Alex Vincent

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Apr 9, 2008, 12:24:03 PM4/9/08
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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.

Ted Mielczarek

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Apr 10, 2008, 1:09:07 PM4/10/08
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I don't have a 64 bit OS handy, but this article suggests C:\Windows
\SysWOW64\cmd.exe:
http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1218185,00.html

-Ted

Alex Vincent

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Apr 10, 2008, 8:46:36 PM4/10/08
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Yes, I found the same result, thanks.

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" ...'.

Alex Vincent

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Jun 7, 2008, 1:39:39 AM6/7/08
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New info:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102435&aid=1674783&group_id=2435
Reference the comment on 2007-11-03 19:44. That describes the problem
I'm seeing precisely.

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.

Alex

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