[cfe-dev] Problems with building cmake and llvm using Visual studio 2008

[Vincent Richomme]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:00:10 -0500, kalyan ponnala
<ponnala.kalyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I am trying to build llvm/clang using cmake gui on visual studio 2008 in
> windows vista 64-bit. I tried these following steps and I cant figure
out
> whats going wrong with the build.
>
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> Steps:
> 1:Checkout llvm and clang using visual svn command prompt.
> 
> 2: open cmake-gui
>    select llvm source
>    select llvm build directory. make it seperate \build
>    hit configure.
>    select visual studio 2008 x64 and hit configure again and say
generate.
>     For cmake it could not find the asm masm assemble and it could not
find
> some ".h" extension files. But the
>     solution was generated anyhow.
> 2. open start - programs - visual studio 2008 - command prompt of visual
> studio - right click on command prompt in  the start programs itself and
> click "run as administrator"- enter
>    type devenv /ResetSkipPkgs - enter
>    This should open vs package and you can open your project as
> administrator.
> 3. Set the environment path to point to the Debug directory in llvm.
this
> is
> done by:
>    right-clicking my computer and selecting properties and clicking
> "Advanced system setting" and
>    going to "environmental variables" and selecting "path" from the
system
> variables and clicking on edit
>    and adding C:\Users\Kalyan\llvm\build\bin\debug to the path variable.
> 4. Go to the llvm solution file and right click on ALLBUILD and click
> build.
>
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> The errors are in this way:
> 
> Linking...
> 71>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\..\lib\Debug\LLVMX86CodeGen.lib'
> Linking...
> 80>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\..\lib\Debug\LLVMX86CodeGen.lib'
> 
> this shows up several times. And the build fails.
> Could you please tell me how to fix this error.
> 
> Thanks beforehand.


Hi,

I have tested 30 min ago and everything compiles fine here in Release mode
on a Windows 7 64 bits VS2008
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 91 up-to-date, 26 skipped
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