Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] cmake/MSVC build error (Windows XP)

[Josh Blum]

On 11/06/2011 06:16 AM, Don Ward wrote:
> While attempting to build GNU Radio (from git/master) on Windows XP with
> cmake and Visual C++ 2010 Express, I am getting:
> 
> 4>------ Build started: Project: gengen_generated_index, Configuration:
> Release Win32 ------
> [...]
> 4>  Generating gengen/gengen_generated.i
> 4>
> 4>  The input line is too long.
> 4>
> C:\home\Don\gnuradio\build-msvc\gnuradio-core\src\lib>C:\Python27\python.exe
> -B
> C:/home/Don/gnuradio/build-msvc/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen/gengen_generated.py
> C:/home/Don/gnuradio/build-msvc/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen/gengen_generated.i
> C:/home/Don/gnuradio/build-msvc/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen/gr_vector_source_b.i
> [... most of single long line removed ...]
> C:/home/Don/gnuradio/build-msvc/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen/gr_peak
> 4>C:\Program
> Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(151,5):
> error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 255.
> 
> This line appears in the file gengen_generated_index.vcxproj.  I suppose
> it was put there by cmake.  Any ideas on how to fix or work around
> this?  I can shorten the path names by building in another directory,
> but that seems like an unappealing and temporary workaround at best.
> 

Can you pull master and try again? I actually way of generating it and
merged the work. This was the make -j8 thread.

-Josh