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February 9, 2009
Checked out the vs_revamp branch from the SCons code repository. Original plan was to use my existing 1.2.0 SCons installation and copy the new Windows stuff from vs_revamp into our site_tools/site_scons directory, but that failed in a mysterious way. Running vs_revamp in place according to instructions in a README file worked, but was not immediately compatible with invoking it from GoGui. Next I tried installing vs_revamp just as one would install the trunk (Subversion-speak for main branch) but couldn't get that to work either. By writing a little .bat file wrapper I am now able to run the vs_revamp version of SCons from GoGui; that is, I can get as far with it as I can by invoking it from the command line. That isn't very far at the moment because I can't reach the SLAC V disk, where the external libraries are. (There was a notice about problems with Windows servers today which, in theory, should not have touched any of the resources I need.)
Summary: After quite a bit of thrashing, net result is a small step forward.
February 2, 2009
The SCons developers are working on a better way to determine proper environment on Windows, depending on VS version. The idea is to find the appropriate set-up file (called something like vsvars32.bat), run it in a special subprocess starting with minimal environment and recover the output environment. This sounds like a much more robust and less-convoluted approach which we should certainly follow. I'm looking into how to get the relevant files, which exist only in a developement branch in their code repository.
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