[Lunatixz]

Hi, I'm trying to rebuild my development setup after a fresh windows install...

I thought everything went well, double checked with the wiki and github instructions, but for the life of me I cannot get VS2015 CE to install "vcvars32.bat" and other c++ tools.

I've double checked all the VS install settings making sure to check all tool options, yet nothing installs to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools"

Anyone have suggestions?

Thanks

[Roman_V_M]

Stupid question but have you actually checked VC++ common tools during setup? Recent versions of Visual Studio do not install C++ components by default.

[Lunatixz]

Stupid question but have you actually checked VC++ common tools during setup? Recent versions of Visual Studio do not install C++ components by default.

Yeah, Thanks... it was checked but wouldn't install; not sure why. I ended up installing VC2017CE just for the tool kit, and it was installed under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\14.0\VC\bin"

[Lunatixz]

Seems like cmake doesn't play nice with dual VS installations... i'm getting "Compiling the CXX compiler identification source file "CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp" failed." error.

My guess I need to set the correct path to VS 2015 in the build.env?

[MatthewLundberg]

I don't think that's it. I have four different versions of VS installed, 2010 - 2015.

[Lunatixz]

I don't think that's it. I have four different versions of VS installed, 2010 - 2015.

Driving me nuts, Not sure whats going on... I tried manually settings the compile path in cmake... nadda.

Just don't have time for this, lol... what was supposed to be a quick code compile is now turning into an all day affair.

I must be forgetting something dumb...

[Lunatixz]

This is my error, if anyone knows a solution... I'd appreciate it.

Code:

The output was:
1
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 14.0.25420.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Build started 8/14/2017 4:37:37 PM.
Project "D:\GitHub\xbmc\kodi-build\CMakeFiles\3.9.1\CompilerIdC\CompilerIdC.vcxproj" on node 1 (default targets).
PrepareForBuild:
  Creating directory "Debug\".
  Creating directory "Debug\CompilerIdC.tlog\".
InitializeBuildStatus:
  Creating "Debug\CompilerIdC.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
ClCompile:
  CL.exe /c /nologo /W0 /WX- /Od /Oy- /D _MBCS /Gm- /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /GS /fp:precise /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /Zc:inline /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc140.pdb" /Gd /TC /analyze- /errorReport:queue CMakeCCompilerId.c
TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe". The system cannot find the file specified. [D:\GitHub\xbmc\kodi-build\CMakeFiles\3.9.1\CompilerIdC\CompilerIdC.vcxproj]
  
  
Done Building Project "D:\GitHub\xbmc\kodi-build\CMakeFiles\3.9.1\CompilerIdC\CompilerIdC.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

"D:\GitHub\xbmc\kodi-build\CMakeFiles\3.9.1\CompilerIdC\CompilerIdC.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
(ClCompile target) ->
  TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe". The system cannot find the file specified. [D:\GitHub\xbmc\kodi-build\CMakeFiles\3.9.1\CompilerIdC\CompilerIdC.vcxproj]

    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.80


Checking whether the ASM compiler is GNU using "--version" did not match "(GNU assembler)|(GCC)|(Free Software Foundation)":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is HP using "-V" did not match "HP C":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is Intel using "--version" did not match "(ICC)":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is SunPro using "-V" did not match "Sun C":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is XL using "-qversion" did not match "XL C":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is MSVC using "/?" did not match "Microsoft":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is TI using "-h" did not match "Texas Instruments":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is GNU using "--version" did not match "(GNU assembler)|(GCC)|(Free Software Foundation)":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is IAR using "" did not match "IAR Assembler":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is ARMCC using "" did not match "(ARM Compiler)|(ARM Assembler)":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is NASM using "-v" did not match "(NASM version)":
Checking whether the ASM compiler is YASM using "--version" did not match "(yasm)":

[Roman_V_M]

cl.exe is MS's C++ compiler. It seems that something wrong with environment variables. Try to start "VS2015 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt" and then run CMake generation / compilation from there.

[MatthewLundberg]

I don't think you should need to run the Tools Command Prompt. I've never done this to build Kodi; I just use a normal command prompt. vcvarsall.bat is called from various scripts in /tools/buildsteps/windows/x64/.

1. Is %VS140COMNTOOLS% defined in your environment?
2. Does "%VS140COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat" exist?

If the answer to either is no, check your compiler installation.

[Lunatixz]

Thanks, Yea its path related... probably starting with my issue getting common tools to install from VS15 and then installing VS17.

I checked out paths, env. paths... they all seem okay. I noted multiple VS14 common tools some complete others missing files, I never had a issue compiling; so i'm unsure if this is normal.

Currently trying to understand what cl path it's trying to access.