windows compile issues because of new lxml and future dependency

[Randy Mackay]

A couple of changes to the build system (which speeds up the compile time) may cause problems for windows users.  The error message is something like “missing future”.  The solution is to use pip to install “future” and “lxml” and then it all starts working.

 

Hopefully we can update the Windows Toolchain installer to add these new requirements.  Until then, I’ve created an issue here:

     https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/4966

 

-Randy

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:00 AM, 'Randy Mackay' via drones-discuss
<drones-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> A couple of changes to the build system (which speeds up the compile time)
> may cause problems for windows users. The error message is something like
> “missing future”. The solution is to use pip to install “future” and “lxml”

Or you can read the subliminal message that continuing with windows
has no future and install Linux instead :-)

Lucas De Marchi

[Randy Mackay]

Windows is still going strong in Asia (Japan, China, etc) so while there are developers here that want to stick with Windows, I will bravely fight on to maintain support in our build system.

My guess is the real problems will hit when the Linux flight controllers become the standard instead of Pixhawk. I suppose at that point we will need a super easy way to set up a VM.

-Randy

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