digitalmars.D.ide - Visual D 0.3.40 unable to build projects under path names with spaces

finalpatch (9/9) Feb 01 2015 It took me some time to figure out 0.3.40 does not like path

Rainer Schuetze (3/11) Feb 01 2015 I don't see this issue. Please file it at https://issues.dlang.org/

finalpatch (12/28) Feb 02 2015 Hi Rainer,

Rainer Schuetze (35/45) Feb 02 2015 There are no changes since that release yet, so I'm on the same version

finalpatch (4/5) Feb 03 2015 You are absolutely right! I remember I have disabled short file

finalpatch (35/42) Feb 03 2015 FYI, here's the cmd file
Rainer Schuetze (10/14) Feb 03 2015 I didn't know it was possible to disable these...

finalpatch (34/44) Feb 04 2015 Hi Rainer,

Rainer Schuetze (6/8) Feb 08 2015 There were problems with configurations that had spaces in the name.

Obsidian Jackal (1/1) May 30 2019 This a problem still with v0.49.2

Rainer Schuetze (2/3) May 31 2019 Please paste a build log here or in a bug entry at https://issues.dlang....

Obsidian Jackal (2/6) Jun 01 2019 Here's my https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19930

"finalpatch" <fengli gmail.com> writes:

It took me some time to figure out 0.3.40 does not like path 
names that contain spaces.  The default Visual Studio 2013 
project folder happens to be such a directory 
(%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects) so after a 
fresh install of 0.3.40 it would appear that none of the project 
template works, which is going to be very frustrating for 
newcomers.
This issue is new to 0.3.40. The previous release 0.3.39 is okay 
with spaces in project paths.

Feb 01 2015

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 01.02.2015 14:49, finalpatch wrote:
 It took me some time to figure out 0.3.40 does not like path names that
 contain spaces.  The default Visual Studio 2013 project folder happens
 to be such a directory (%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio
 2013\Projects) so after a fresh install of 0.3.40 it would appear that
 none of the project template works, which is going to be very
 frustrating for newcomers.
 This issue is new to 0.3.40. The previous release 0.3.39 is okay with
 spaces in project paths.

I don't see this issue. Please file it at https://issues.dlang.org/ 
providing the *.build.cmd and the *.buildlog.htl from the output folder.

Feb 01 2015

"finalpatch" <fengli gmail.com> writes:

Hi Rainer,

Are you saying you don't see this issue with the latest 
development branch?
I was referring to the prebuilt 0.3.40 binary at
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases , so 
maybe this has been fixed in the repo.

To be precise, the project templates can generate valid projects, 
but because the build commands created by visuald do not quote 
the path correctly, the project fails to link, and results in 
weird link errors, such as unable to link "user.lib" or 
"studio.lib".

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 07:36:56 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 On 01.02.2015 14:49, finalpatch wrote:
 It took me some time to figure out 0.3.40 does not like path 
 names that
 contain spaces.  The default Visual Studio 2013 project folder 
 happens
 to be such a directory (%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio
 2013\Projects) so after a fresh install of 0.3.40 it would 
 appear that
 none of the project template works, which is going to be very
 frustrating for newcomers.
 This issue is new to 0.3.40. The previous release 0.3.39 is 
 okay with
 spaces in project paths.

 I don't see this issue. Please file it at 
 https://issues.dlang.org/ providing the *.build.cmd and the 
 *.buildlog.htl from the output folder.

Feb 02 2015

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 02.02.2015 11:35, finalpatch wrote:
 Hi Rainer,

 Are you saying you don't see this issue with the latest development branch?
 I was referring to the prebuilt 0.3.40 binary at
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases , so maybe
 this has been fixed in the repo.

 To be precise, the project templates can generate valid projects, but
 because the build commands created by visuald do not quote the path
 correctly, the project fails to link, and results in weird link errors,
 such as unable to link "user.lib" or "studio.lib".

There are no changes since that release yet, so I'm on the same version 
but some local changes to the mago debugger engine.

Please post the *.build.cmd file from the output folder here. Mine looks 
like this (with bad lin breaks shown in my mail program):

set PATH=m:\s\d\rainers\windows\\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows 
Kits\8.1\\\bin;%PATH%
dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\Console_App6.json" 
-deps="Debug\Console_App6.dep" -c -od"Debug" main.d
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError

set LIB="m:\s\d\rainers\windows\bin\..\..\lib"
echo. > 
c:\users\rainer\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\COCE3D~1\Debug\CONSOL~1.LNK
echo 
"Debug\main.obj","Debug\Console_App6.exe_cv","Debug\Console_A
p6.map",user32.lib+ 
 c:\users\rainer\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\COCE3D~1\Debug\CONSOL~1.LNK


echo kernel32.lib/NOMAP/CO/NOI/DELEXE >> 
c:\users\rainer\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\COCE3D~1\Debug\CONSOL~1.LNK

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\pipedmd.exe" -deps 
Debug\Console_App6.lnkdep m:\s\d\rainers\windows\bin\link.exe 
 c:\users\rainer\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\COCE3D~1\Debug\CONSOL~1.LNK
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\Console_App6.exe_cv" (echo 
"Debug\Console_App6.exe_cv" not created! && goto reportError)
echo Converting debug information...
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\cv2pdb\cv2pdb.exe" 
"Debug\Console_App6.exe_cv" "Debug\Console_App6.exe"
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\Console_App6.exe" (echo "Debug\Console_App6.exe" not 
created! && goto reportError)

goto noError

:reportError
echo Building Debug\Console_App6.exe failed!

:noError

-----------
Maybe there is something wrong with the "short" names?

Feb 02 2015

"finalpatch" <fengli gmail.com> writes:

You are absolutely right! I remember I have disabled short file 
names on my NTFS volume that's why long names with space get in 
there!


On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 19:06:08 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 Maybe there is something wrong with the "short" names?

Feb 03 2015

"finalpatch" <fengli gmail.com> writes:

FYI, here's the cmd file

set PATH=C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\bin;%PATH%
dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\ConsoleApp1.json" 
-deps="Debug\ConsoleApp1.dep" -c -of"Debug\ConsoleApp1.obj" main.d
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError

set LIB="C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib"
echo. > c:\users\fengli\documents\visual studio 
2013\Projects\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg
echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.obj","Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv","Debug\ConsoleA
p1.map",user32.lib+ 
 c:\users\fengli\documents\visual studio 


2013\Projects\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg
echo kernel32.lib/NOMAP/CO/NOI/DELEXE >> 
c:\users\fengli\documents\visual studio 
2013\Projects\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\pipedmd.exe" -deps 
Debug\ConsoleApp1.lnkdep 
C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe 
 c:\users\fengli\documents\visual studio 
2013\Projects\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" (echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" not created! && goto reportError)
echo Converting debug information...
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\cv2pdb\cv2pdb.exe" 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe"
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe" (echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe" not created! && goto reportError)

goto noError

:reportError
echo Building Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe failed!

:noError


On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 10:08:38 UTC, finalpatch wrote:
 You are absolutely right! I remember I have disabled short file 
 names on my NTFS volume that's why long names with space get in 
 there!


 On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 19:06:08 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
 wrote:
 Maybe there is something wrong with the "short" names?

Feb 03 2015

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 03.02.2015 11:08, finalpatch wrote:
 You are absolutely right! I remember I have disabled short file names on
 my NTFS volume that's why long names with space get in there!


 On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 19:06:08 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 Maybe there is something wrong with the "short" names?



I didn't know it was possible to disable these...

Unfortunately, optlink (the linker that comes with dmd) fails to work 
for some cases when there are spaces in the filename, e.g. the response 
file name. Visual D could avoid that by specifying relative paths, if 
the spaces are in a name of a parent directory. But it still fails if 
your output directory name contains spaces (e.g. by reusing the 
configuration name).

Visual D provide some fallback for most cases if the short name 
conversion fails, though.

Feb 03 2015

"finalpatch" <fengli gmail.com> writes:

Hi Rainer,

So I installed 0.3.39 again and observed its build.cmd file,  it 
seems 0.3.39 uses relative paths. Here's 0.3.39's commands:

set PATH=C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\bin;%PATH%
dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\ConsoleApp1.json" 
-deps="Debug\ConsoleApp1.dep" -c -of"Debug\ConsoleApp1.obj" main.d
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError

set LIB="C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib"
echo. > Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg
echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.obj","Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv","Debug\ConsoleA
p1.map",user32.lib+ 
 Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg


echo kernel32.lib/NOMAP/CO/NOI/DELEXE >> 
Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\pipedmd.exe" -deps 
Debug\ConsoleApp1.lnkdep 
C:\Users\fengli\Apps\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe 
 Debug\ConsoleApp1.build.lnkarg
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" (echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" not created! && goto reportError)
echo Converting debug information...
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\cv2pdb\cv2pdb.exe" 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe_cv" "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe"
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe" (echo 
"Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe" not created! && goto reportError)

goto noError

:reportError
echo Building Debug\ConsoleApp1.exe failed!

:noError


On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 21:24:26 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
 I didn't know it was possible to disable these...

 Unfortunately, optlink (the linker that comes with dmd) fails 
 to work for some cases when there are spaces in the filename, 
 e.g. the response file name. Visual D could avoid that by 
 specifying relative paths, if the spaces are in a name of a 
 parent directory. But it still fails if your output directory 
 name contains spaces (e.g. by reusing the configuration name).

 Visual D provide some fallback for most cases if the short name 
 conversion fails, though.

Feb 04 2015

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 04.02.2015 09:07, finalpatch wrote:
 So I installed 0.3.39 again and observed its build.cmd file,  it seems
 0.3.39 uses relative paths. Here's 0.3.39's commands:

There were problems with configurations that had spaces in the name. 
That's why the short name translation was added, but that also included 
creating an absolute path. I can't remember the exact problem, so I've 
now added a fix by placing the response file into the project folder 
instead of the output folder if short name generation failed.

Feb 08 2015

Obsidian Jackal <enkouyami gmail.com> writes:

This a problem still with v0.49.2

May 30 2019

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 30/05/2019 23:30, Obsidian Jackal wrote:
 This a problem still with v0.49.2

Please paste a build log here or in a bug entry at https://issues.dlang.org/

May 31 2019

Obsidian Jackal <enkouyami gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 31 May 2019 at 07:03:13 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
 On 30/05/2019 23:30, Obsidian Jackal wrote:
 This a problem still with v0.49.2

 Please paste a build log here or in a bug entry at 
 https://issues.dlang.org/

Here's my https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19930

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