vera++ is not a valid Win32 application

[Jérémie Faucher-Goulet]

When installed on Windows XP, double clicking on the executable yields the error "invalid.PNG".

When called through MSYS (this is a Jenkins build machine compiling using makefiles and GCC), we get "Bad file number"

Same file, once copied over on a Windows 7 x64 machine works.

Using version 1.30

[ThArGos]

Well I confirm this works on Win7 64bits as I have retested it right away.

C:\Users\Master>vera++ --version
1.3.0

Yet we do not have any windows xp hosts to test vera++. Moreover Windows XP is not supported anymore by microsoft.

I am going to test vera++ on a Windows 7 32 bits to see if I can reproduce the error.

Can you compile vera++ on this windows XP machine and run the tests please? Maybe we will be able to understand what is triggering this weird invalid png error. Thanks for your report.

[ThArGos]

It works on Windows 7 32 bits too.

Can you check the md5sum of the file please. Mine is the following: e12ae6b7be5a3840197f0cb56fe03c8e

[Jérémie Faucher-Goulet]

Well, I don't have the same MD5 checksum for vera++.exe -> 34e1bbc860b19aca90e05041d191c33f

But it matches with what I have on my windows 7 x64 machine, which works.... A bit puzzled now.

[Jérémie Faucher-Goulet]

I know Microsoft doesn't support XP freely anymore, and I sure wish I didn't have this weird requirement. But sadly our build machine has to be on XP.

I cannot edit/modify that machine to do what you ask, but I could lookup into the possibility of getting a XP VM running to make some tests with the help of our IT department.

[Jérémie Faucher-Goulet]

I've managed to get a Windows XP VM working and replicate the same error.

Been looking into building by following what's available here: https://bitbucket.org/verateam/vera/wiki/developers/Building.md

But even with that I didn't go very far, having never used boost before... I've downloaded a copy of it (version 1.58), and there is no folder "v2" under tools/build. Not having that much time to invest in this, I gave up at that point.

[ThArGos]

Hi.

Thanks for trying to build vera++ on Windows XP. Sorry the documentation instructions didn't match with boost 1.58. They were written for boost 1.54. I have updated the build instructions so they now match boost 1.58 file organisation

[Jérémie Faucher-Goulet]

I definitely got further... Now I get (from cmake):

#!
Could NOT find PythonInterp (missing:  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE) (Required is at least version "2.0")
Could NOT find PythonLibs (missing:  PYTHON_LIBRARIES PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS) (Required is at least version "2.0")
CMake Error at src/python.cmake:10 (message):
  Could NOT find Python.  Turn VERA_USE_SYSTEM_PYTHON to OFF to build it with
  vera++.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/CMakeLists.txt:12 (include)


Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/vera++/vera/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

When I follow your instructions for "Installing Boost.Python on Windows", it doesn't seem right. As soon as I execute "bjam --with-python" it goes ahead and install stuff at the root of my C drive instead of installing where I've previously installed boost (with a prefix).

[Vincent Hobeïka]

Feel free to reopen the ticket but it's Win32 and Windows XP related. I am not sure it is relevant anymore.