Re: [xml-cppdom-devel] Building cppdom 1.0.0 on win x64

[Patrick H. <pa...@13...>]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Doug McCorkle wrote:

>
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Doug McCorkle wrote:
>
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>> On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Patrick Hartling wrote:
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>>> x64 should do it, but it's been a long time since I last tried it.
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> What is the appropriate architecture type to specify for scons to
>>>> build cppdom 1.0.0 for win x64? Thanks.
>>>>
>>
>> You are right in that it should work. I have tracked down the problem
>> which is that python is not detecting that my parallels Win64 os is a
>> win64 os. I am not sure what is getting messed up there. Any
>> suggestions on how to make that work for python would be appreciated.
>
> For now I have hacked GetPlatform and GetArch to return the
> appropriate values for win64 builds but I am running into another
> problem. It appears that the EnvironmentBuilder is specifically
> configured for MSVS 8 which causes problems when trying to build with
> MSVS 9. Any thoughts on potential fixes? Can we use the default
> behaviour of SCons 1.2.0 for MSVS builds and not support older
> versions of SCons? Thanks.


Oh, right, I forgot about that mess. Give the new SCons support a try.  
If it works, the hacks for Win64 and Visual C++ 8.0 should be removed.  
I don't see any reason to support older versions of SCons, but then  
again, I don't have the final say on that.

  -Patrick


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