winbuilder3.3 fails on windows 7 about boost

[Cé]

I have downloaded winbuilder from here, and double clicked make.bat:
https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder/trunk/3.3/+download/kicad-winbuilder-3.3.7z
-- KiCad-Winbuilder V3.3
-- Build type: Release
-- Checking for environment problems
-- Checking for installed Bazaar
-- Checking for installed MinGW compiler
-- Using installed MinGW compiler, version: 4.8.1
-- Checking for wxPython
-- Downloading wxPython
-- Decompressing wxPython
-- Downloading Latest Library Archive...
-- Checking out KiCad Documentation source (BZR head)
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
-- Checking for BZIP2Build phase:Apply phase:adding file 30/36
-- Downloading BZIP2 Source
-- Building BZIP2 Library
-- Checking for GLEW
-- Downloading
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write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
-- Building GLEW/s / Build phase:Apply phase:adding file 10/17
-- GLEW build finished
-- Checking for Cairo
-- Downloading cairo-dev_1.10.2-2_win32.zip
-- Decompressing Cairo
-- Checking out KiCad source code (BZR head)
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write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
-- Cleaning PCBNEW Python files to ensure good build...e 50/606
-- Using KiCad Options:
-- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
-- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
-- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
-- -DPYTHON_ROOT_DIR=C:/Users/Cedric/Downloads/kicad-winbuilder-3.3/env/python
-- -DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
--
 Configuring KiCad ( Release )
-- Building Release version of KiCad revision: 4739

-- KiCad Release was NOT built successfully! Please view the logs
Press any key to continue . . .

it looks like the problem is with boost:
[ 1%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track boost patches
[ 1%] adding pristine boost files to 'boost scratch repo'
CMakeFiles\boost.dir\build.make:150: recipe for target 'C:/Users/Cedric/Downloads/kicad-winbuilder-3.3/src/kicad/.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_add_boost' failed
CMakeFiles\Makefile2:62: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all' failed
Makefile:115: recipe for target 'all' failed

Please see the attached logs.

[Cé (cedric-dewijs-telfort)]

I have extracted kicad-winbuilder-3.3.7z into c:\builder. Now the build goes fine. Please add a warning about long path names, or let the builder deal with the long path correctly.

Kind regards,
Cedric

[Brian Sidebotham (brian-sidebotham)]

It is not the builder that can deal with a long path directory. It's a limitation of Windows. We can get a warning built into the script though.

Sorry for the late reply, I'm glad you found the solution.

[Nicolas Matringe (nmatringe)]

It would be very nice to have a path name length check at the beginning of the script, indeed.

Had the same problem, moved everything up the directory tree, works.
Thanks

[Nicolas Matringe (nmatringe)]

I wrote this small piece of code to check for pathname length:

@echo off
set workdir=%cd%
echo.%workdir%>len
for %%a in (len) do set /a len=%%~za -2
set l=%len%
del len
if %l% gtr 30 echo Pathname is too long

30 was just a random value to check it worked, I haven't checked what the maximum length should be for winbuilder to work ok.

[Brian Sidebotham (brian-sidebotham)]

Nicolas. Winbuilder 3.4-2 already includes a fix for this. In
installations where the path is likely to be too long for the build
the following warning is issued at the start of the build process:

-- KiCad-Winbuilder V3.4
CMake Warning at KiCadWinbuilder.cmake:182 (message):
  Your install path maybe too long to be able to successfully build KiCad.
  Try re-installing to a root directory if the build fails!

Best Regards,

Brian.

On 16 July 2014 15:07, Nicolas Matringe <email address hidden> wrote:
> I wrote this small piece of code to check for pathname length:
>
> @echo off
> set workdir=%cd%
> echo.%workdir%>len
> for %%a in (len) do set /a len=%%~za -2
> set l=%len%
> del len
> if %l% gtr 30 echo Pathname is too long
>
> 30 was just a random value to check it worked, I haven't checked what
> the maximum length should be for winbuilder to work ok.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289983
>
> Title:
> winbuilder3.3 fails on windows 7 about boost
>
> Status in KiCad Windows Builder:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> I have downloaded winbuilder from here, and double clicked make.bat:
> https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder/trunk/3.3/+download/kicad-winbuilder-3.3.7z
> -- KiCad-Winbuilder V3.3
> -- Build type: Release
> -- Checking for environment problems
> -- Checking for installed Bazaar
> -- Checking for installed MinGW compiler
> -- Using installed MinGW compiler, version: 4.8.1
> -- Checking for wxPython
> -- Downloading wxPython
> -- Decompressing wxPython
> -- Downloading Latest Library Archive...
> -- Checking out KiCad Documentation source (BZR head)
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
> -- Checking for BZIP2Build phase:Apply phase:adding file 30/36
> -- Downloading BZIP2 Source
> -- Building BZIP2 Library
> -- Checking for GLEW
> -- Downloading
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
> -- Building GLEW/s / Build phase:Apply phase:adding file 10/17
> -- GLEW build finished
> -- Checking for Cairo
> -- Downloading cairo-dev_1.10.2-2_win32.zip
> -- Decompressing Cairo
> -- Checking out KiCad source code (BZR head)
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
> -- Cleaning PCBNEW Python files to ensure good build...e 50/606
> -- Using KiCad Options:
> -- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> -- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> -- -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> -- -DPYTHON_ROOT_DIR=C:/Users/Cedric/Downloads/kicad-winbuilder-3.3/env/python
> -- -DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> --
> Configuring KiCad ( Release )
> -- Building Release version of KiCad revision: 4739
>
> -- KiCad Release was NOT built successfully! Please view the logs
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> it looks like the problem is with boost:
> [ 1...