[sldev] My Trials and Tribs

[Robin Cornelius]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tillie Ariantho <tillie at xp2.de> wrote:
> On 10.12.2009 22:26, Laurence Brickner wrote:

> Compile is only working from within the UI, though, because whoever wrote develop.py didn't try with the Express version, so it chokes two times, first on a missing registry entry, that's just not
> available for the Express version, and then on a not existing EXE file, that is not part of Express either.

This is a known issue, develop.py was written for linden lab, where
they use visual studio 2005 professional

>
> Just use the UI and all is well (or go fix the develop.py and submit a patch :D).

The basic issue here is not fixable, it is not possible to modify
visual studio solutions in the way that are required with an express
edition of visual studio. This is by design from Microsoft, the
specific automation API that is missing is only available to paid
customers of visual studio.

Setting the statup project, selecting the build configuration and
modifying the working folder are the 3 tasks we need to do but cannot
as this data is within the user options file of the solution which is
a binary file, with no published format that is only designed to be
accessed via the API described in the previous paragraph.

Its possible to *improve* develop.py so it handles the entire
situation with some grace, and there is a patch of mine on jira (i
forget the number) which at least detects visual studio express and
then makes no attempt to run the vstool.exe program but instead prints
some advice for the user on how to proceed. I guess we should revive
this and get it into snowglobe to avoid people having to repeat the
same problems over and over.

Robin