Building Swiften using scons

Question

I am trying to follow the examples at http://swift.im/swiften/guide/#Example-EchoBot1, for building a simple XMPP client using the swiften library.

Mentioned example needs file Swiften.h. According to the swiften mailing list, this file is generated when building swiften. So, I have tried building it on my windows machine, following the instructions at http://swift.im/git/swift-contrib/tree/Documentation/BuildingOnWindows.txt.

Since they state that Qt and open ssl are optional, I go straight to building by running scons.

This is the output I get:

  c:\swift-2.0>scons
    scons: Reading SConscript files ...
    scons: warning: No installed VCs
    File "C:\swift-2.0\SConstruct", line 1, in <module>
    scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++ compilers most likely not set correctly
     File "C:\swift-2.0\SConstruct", line 1, in <module>
    scons: warning: No installed VCs
    File "C:\swift-2.0\SConstruct", line 1, in <module>
    scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++ compilers most likely not set correctly
     File "C:\swift-2.0\SConstruct", line 1, in <module>
    KeyError: 'MSVS_VERSION':
      File "C:\swift-2.0\SConstruct", line 1:
        variant_dir = SConscript("BuildTools/SCons/SConscript.boot")
       File "c:\swift-2.0\3rdParty\SCons\scons-local-2.0.0.final.0\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", line 614:
        return method(*args, **kw)
      File "c:\swift-2.0\3rdParty\SCons\scons-local-2.0.0.final.0\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", line 551:
         return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw)
      File "c:\swift-2.0\3rdParty\SCons\scons-local-2.0.0.final.0\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", line 260:
        exec _file_ in call_stack[-1].globals
      File "C:\swift-2.0\BuildTools\SCons\SConscript.boot", line 240:
         if int(env["MSVS_VERSION"].split(".")[0]) < 10 :
      File "c:\swift-2.0\3rdParty\SCons\scons-local-2.0.0.final.0\SCons\Environment.py", line 409:
        return self._dict[key]

How do I set the script to find my version of Visual Studio?

Thanks,

best regards,

c

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '14 at 22:07

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SCons should automatically find the installed version of VisualStudio, but you have to open a "VisualC++ command prompt", as described in the BuildingOnWindows.txt, and start the build within this environment.

answered Aug 31 '14 at 22:07

dirkbaechle

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I have tried this with all three visual studio command prompts I have: "Developer Command Prompt for VS2013", "VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt", "VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt". I get the same problem with each of these. – hansa Aug 31 '14 at 22:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 06:05

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I think we've not updated scons to handle VS 2013 yet. I've got a pending patch to add support for some newer VSs, which I'll try to check includes 2013 and get integrated in the next couple of days.

answered Sep 01 '14 at 06:05

Kev

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Cool. Would you know what is the latest version supported at this time? – hansa Sep 01 '14 at 06:34
ISTR that we work with 2012 as long as we're run from the VS command prompt, but I haven't personally tested this. – Kev Sep 01 '14 at 10:12

Building Swiften using scons

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