[solved] Trouble building 6.9.4-10 VS2013

[dez]

CUSTOMBUILD : fatal error A1000: cannot open file : "jsimdext.inc" [C:\third_party\sandbox\ImageMagick-win32-6.9.4-10\VisualMagick\jpeg\CORE_jpeg_DynamicMT.vcxproj]


I keep getting that over and over. I have tried doing a clean, etc. But it never gets past that point.

[dez]

The jsimdext.inc file does exist in C:\third_party\sandbox\ImageMagick-win32-6.9.4-10\jpeg\simd. Not sure why the build can't find it.

[fmw42]

I do not know much about Windows installs, but might you have built a 64-bit VS for a 32-bit IM or vice-versa?

[dez]

The machine I am building on is windows 7 32 bit. And the logs show Configuration Release Win32. I have tried to build with the GUI as well.

Command line I am using:
MSBuild VisualDynamicMT.sln /target:Clean /property:Configuration=Release
MSBuild VisualDynamicMT.sln /property:Configuration=Release

[fmw42]

But is your VS 64-bit or 32-bit? Sorry, I don't know more to help. One of the Windows users will like have to help further. Just checking one of the more obvious possible issues.

[dez]

It has to be 32 bit. I cannot run 64 bit software on 32bit windows.

[fmw42]

Yes, I understand. I was just checking to be sure that you download and are using a 32bit VS

[dez]

for what it's worth, -1 built just fine. -9 also had this issue, but I noticed that -10 had been released, so thought to try it instead. I don't know where to find the windows versions of the build source for 6.9.4-2 through 6.9.4-8 so I cannot say when the error was introduced.

[fmw42]

IM only archives source versions x.x.x-10. You might find them elsewhere.

[fmw42]

One of the IM developers or Windows users will need to help further.

[dez]

Yep. I agree. I have tried searching for intermediate bundles, but can only find the unix source for those (via the git repo's tagged release). But since none of those bundles contain the VisualMagick directory, I am stuck (unless I can just copy the one from -10 over... *shrug*).

[dlemstra]

You can clone the repository that we use to build the Windows version of IM from here: http://git.imagemagick.org/repos/ImageM ... indows.git (also available on github if you prefer that). You will need to switch to the ImageMagick-Windows-6 branch if you want IM6 instead of IM7. Then you need to run CloneRepositories.cmd that will clone all the repositories that are required to build the Windows binaries. To make sure you use the latest version of configure you should rebuild VisualMagick\configure\configure.sln. Then run configure.exe to create the new solution files that you can use to build ImageMagick.

[dez]

Thanks dlemstra. Simply deleting the configure.exe and rebuilding (after converting the project to vs2013) fixed the issue. First time in a long while the configure.exe that comes in the bundle didn't work for me.

[dlemstra]

We haven't build it for a while and I am considering to remove it from our repository and force a 'manual build'.

[dez]

Now is a good time to do that, since it doesn't work (at least on the 6.xx version). Thanks for reminding me to follow instructions.