Re: [boost] [build][1.59] Problems with VC14 and MSPDB140.DLL (was: [testing][teeks] MSVC-14 errors about MSPDB140.DLL)

Subject: Re: [boost] [build][1.59] Problems with VC14 and MSPDB140.DLL (was: [testing][teeks] MSVC-14 errors about MSPDB140.DLL)
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-07 12:09:29

What are the steps to reproduce this?  64-bit msvc-14 builds seem to be 
OK for me,

John.

On 07/08/2015 16:56, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 07.08.2015 18:37, Tom Kent wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> On 28-Jul-15 3:44 AM, Tom Kent wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking at the boost-build code, this batch file is created in
>>>> build/src/tools/msvc.jam:744. This file will create the temp file in
>>>> question by grabbing the output of a run of the visual studio 
>>>> environment
>>>> setup routine (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>> 14.0\vc\vcvarsall.bat amd64). However, for the msvc-14.0 /
>>>> address-model=64
>>>> case, it seems that it is combining the 32 bit and 64 bit variables 
>>>> into
>>>> one causing this issue (and other variables that shouldn't be set 
>>>> by the
>>>> amd64 run, such as FrameworkVersion32 and FrameworkVersion64...just
>>>> running
>>>> the above command only sets FrameworkVersion64).
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible that build is running the 32 bit variable file, then
>>>> running
>>>> the 64 bit instance?
>>>>
>>>
>>>              local original-vars = [ SPLIT_BY_CHARACTERS [ SHELL set 
>>> ] :
>>> "\n" ] ;
>>>              local new-vars = [ SPLIT_BY_CHARACTERS [ SHELL
>>> "$(setup-script) $(setup-options)>nul && set" ] : "\n" ] ;
>>>              local diff-vars = [ set.difference $(new-vars) :
>>> $(original-vars) ] ;
>>>
>>> So we should be capturing the changes that the particular setup script
>>> does to environment; it's not obvious
>>> why this would start to fail with VS 14 - adding
>>>
>>>          ECHO $(diff-vars) ;
>>>
>>> after the above lines might be illuminating. I'm installing VS 14 
>>> now, but
>>> it might take a day till
>>> I get to debug.
>>>
>>> - Volodya
>>>
>>>
>> Does anyone know if any progress has been made on this?  I think that 
>> the
>> 1.59 release is just around the corner, and I would consider this a
>> show-stopper as a user can't do a build for msvc-14.0 with 
>> address-model=64.
>
> +1, I agree with the 'show-stopper' here.
>
>
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