Subj : Build instructions for Windows
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jul 23 2021 15:24:36

  Re: Build instructions for Windows
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Jul 23 2021 02:00 pm

 > One thing is that the wiki mentions using Visual Studio 2019.  I found that
 > I was getting errors saying the v141_xp toolkit was missing.  It seems the
 > v141 build tools are available through the Visual Studio 2019 Community
 > installer, but it seems specifically the v141 XP tools have been deprecated
 > and removed. In order to install the v141_xp tools, I had to also install
 > Visual Studio 2017 Community and enable the XP build tools during the
 > install.

Strange. I've install MSVC2019 on multiple stock Windows 10 systems and was able to build sbbs. I guess I'll have to try that again someday to insure that still works. <shrug>

 > Also, while building, Visual Studio reported gitinfo.bat was returning with
 > error code 255.  I found gitinfo.bat was trying to run tr (the GNU translate
 > tool), and I didn't have that installed for Windows.  I downloaded the GNU
 > Core utils for Windows here & installed that, which solved that issue:
 > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

Yup, the 'tr' utility is now a requirement. That dependency will likely go away someday (e.g. when I switch to CMake).

 > After that, still just 3 of  the projects failed to build.  VS reports build
 > errors for sbbs, textgen, delfiles, and upgrade_to_v319.  The errors are all
 > from text.h regarding a missing #endif, and when I checked text.h, it's
 > incomplete - The last line is "enum :":
 >
 > /* text.h */
 >
 > /* Synchronet static text string constants */
 >
 > /***************************************************************************
 > */ /* Macros for elements of the array of pointers (text[]) to static text*/
 > /* Auto-generated from CTRL\TEXT.DAT*/ /************************************
 > ****************************************/
 >
 > #ifndef _TEXT_H
 > #define _TEXT_H
 >
 > enum {

That looks like textgen failed (crashed?) when trying to generate the files (text.h, text.js).

 > I seem to remember seeing something a while ago that generates text.h, but I
 > don't remember what it was now.

It's textgen. You'll need to build that (which also runs it and should generate the output files).

 > What I'd like to do is to build the debug binaries for Windows and attach
 > the VS debugger to the sbbsctrl process, because I'm still finding that
 > Synchronet tends to crash every so often on my setup (requiring a program to
 > perodically check to see whether sbbsctrl.exe is running, and re-start it if
 > it's not).

Great, would love to get the root-cause of any crashing bugs. :-)
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