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NSIS installer not building on Win x64 - scott967 - 2021-12-02

I was building Kodi on Win x64 VS 2017 using the BuildSetup.bat. Everything ran OK except it errored out when attempting to build the NSIS installer -- error is

Code:
File: failed opening file "C:\Users\scottZ397\Documents\GitHub\build-xbmc\project\Win32BuildSetup\BUILD_WIN32\addons\visualization.projectm\resources\projectM\presets\presets_eyetune\Martin N AdamFX Infusion = Phat+Yin+EoS_Mandala Chaser Ft AdamFX n Martin - The Beast Mandala Chaser FX H.milk"

!include: error in script: "visualization-addons.nsi" on line 35

Error in script "genNsisInstaller.nsi" on line 246 -- aborting creation process

Also tried BuildSetup.bat nobinaryaddons clean same results.

I can find that file and open it in notepad. So I deleted the visualization.projectM folder from project\Win32BuildSetup\BUILD_WIN32\addons and reran BuildSetup.bat nobinaryaddons clean and it completed. (aside -- but it seems all the binaries are in the installer even with that switch.)

The resulting installer works fine, but wondering what went wrong?

scott s.
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RE: NSIS installer not building on Win x64 - Fuzzard - 2021-12-02

Probably path length limits. Windows is hit and miss with support for long paths

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd

RE: NSIS installer not building on Win x64 - scott967 - 2021-12-03

Thanks, I was wondering a little about path length, but haven't experienced that in a long time.

scott s.
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