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| DoopyDoo | Hi.. I'm getting gs64c.exe crashes with Windows 10x64 and I'm not sure what to do about them. I read something about compiling it but I've never compiled something before. Oddly I'm only having crashes with GhostScript 9.21... 9.20 works fine. | 08:00.06 |
| kens | You cold report a bug.... | 08:00.19 |
| DoopyDoo | I wanted to try and compile first to see if it's been fixed | 08:01.27 |
| kens | Well, if you want to try the current code then you need a copy of the MSVC Visual Studio Community Edition | 08:01.51 |
| | Or at least a copy of Visual Studio, at least 2005 | 08:02.04 |
| | Then you will need to clone our repository using Git | 08:02.24 |
| DoopyDoo | huh. The google results suggested using something called mingw | 08:02.39 |
| kens | Well you could do that, I wouldn't | 08:02.53 |
| DoopyDoo | Why not? | 08:03.01 |
| kens | Its a 'Linux on Windows' thing | 08:03.02 |
| | How are you at running Linux ? | 08:03.16 |
| | Its also not really a supported build envbironment | 08:03.36 |
| DoopyDoo | Beginner.. I do have a virtualbox with CentOS on it. | 08:03.41 |
| kens | Well the main problem is that its not really a supported configuration, so we may not be able to spend the time with you that you would need if it doesn't work | 08:04.13 |
| DoopyDoo | What is a supported configuration | 08:04.24 |
| kens | I'd get Vuisual Studio myself. It is free | 08:04.25 |
| | For Windows we use and support the use of Visual Studio, for Linux we use and support gcc/clang | 08:04.48 |
| DoopyDoo | can CentOS output a Window 64-bit executable? | 08:04.50 |
| kens | No | 08:04.54 |
| DoopyDoo | Didn't think so | 08:05.05 |
| kens | Not without serious meddling anyway | 08:05.17 |
| | You could run Wine and then run VS in that. | 08:05.26 |
| | The MS VS community edition is free to download | 08:05.39 |
| | for non-commercial use | 08:05.45 |
| | https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/ | 08:06.25 |
| DoopyDoo | I'm downloading it now | 08:06.27 |
| kens | OK once you've got that, you'll still need a copy of Git, if you want to try current code | 08:06.45 |
| | https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/ | 08:07.06 |
| DoopyDoo | kens: What do I need to select on the install screen? there's a lot of 'workloads' here that might be necessary for compiling this properly | 08:07.31 |
| kens | Don't know, I'm using the full fat edition | 08:07.51 |
| DoopyDoo | UWP, C++, .NET... | 08:07.51 |
| kens | C or C++ is all you need | 08:08.00 |
| | Once you have VS and Git installed, launch the git client | 08:09.54 |
| | Its running in Msys (another Linux on Windows) | 08:10.10 |
| | got to a convenient directory, eg cd /c/projects woudl switch to the C:\projects directory | 08:10.36 |
| | You might need to make a convenient folder of coure | 08:10.44 |
| | Then "git clone https://git.ghostscript.com/ghostpdl.git" | 08:11.33 |
| | When you've done that you should end up with a directory tree starting 'ghostpdl' | 08:12.00 |
| | Under that will be a 'Windows' directory, containing GhostPDL.sln, you need to use Visual Studio to open that file. | 08:12.36 |
| | It will then tell you its for an older version oof Visual Studio and offer to convert it, say 'yes' | 08:12.56 |
| | It will also offer to backup files cefore starting, its your choice tehre, it shouldn't matter whether you do or not | 08:13.21 |
| | That will then leave you with the solution open and ready to build. | 08:13.37 |
| | You should have a tree in the 'solution explorer', which I think starts open on the left. It will have 'All', 'ghostpcl', 'ghostpdl', 'ghostscript' and 'ghostxps' | 08:14.29 |
| | You can either build the whole lot, or just ghostscript | 08:14.47 |
| DoopyDoo | It's cloning right now so this shouldn't be much longer | 08:14.57 |
| kens | To build just ghostscript right-click on the 'ghostscript' label and select 'build' from the context menu | 08:15.19 |
| | NB you need to make sure you build the 64 bit version, not the 32 | 08:15.35 |
| | Unfortunately I'm not running the smae version of VS, and so my instructions may be out of step with your UI (I hate the flat UI look of later editions and so don't use them) | 08:16.16 |
| | Somewhere, probably up the top of the window should be a couple of drop-down boxes with 'Debug' or 'Release' and 'Win32' or 'x64' in them | 08:16.56 |
| DoopyDoo | Ok it did the migration. A lot of warnings. no errors though | 08:17.22 |
| kens | THat's fine, teh warnings are expected | 08:17.30 |
| | So start up VS | 08:17.46 |
| | File->Open 'Solution or Project' | 08:18.06 |
| | Find the ghostpdl/windows/ghostpdl.sln file | 08:18.19 |
| | Oops no you did that already | 08:18.27 |
| | LOL | 08:18.29 |
| DoopyDoo | ok I right clicked ghostscript and did build, the build failed. uploading a log.. | 08:18.34 |
| kens | Intriguing :-) | 08:18.48 |
| DoopyDoo | https://spit.mixtape.moe/view/bf6742d2#wqw7D6qMXG7kuoKMtBl78zqXEvhEnap7 | 08:18.57 |
| kens | Hmm, taking a while | 08:19.12 |
| | That's not, or doesn't seem to be a build log | 08:19.29 |
| | It looks like a bunch of binary | 08:19.41 |
| DoopyDoo | huh, weird, let me try again | 08:19.51 |
| | https://spit.mixtape.moe/view/e8862c23 try this one | 08:20.17 |
| kens | Much better, give me a sec | 08:20.30 |
| | Wow, can't find sys/types.h | 08:21.06 |
| | That would suggest the path isn't correct. | 08:21.22 |
| DoopyDoo | I didn't touch anything tho | 08:22.00 |
| kens | No its not you | 08:22.07 |
| DoopyDoo | hm | 08:22.09 |
| kens | THat is a standard file and should be included with the compiler | 08:22.17 |
| DoopyDoo | maybe the problem is it's building off the debug profile | 08:22.18 |
| | let me try building off the release profile | 08:22.22 |
| kens | Its possible you might need to reboot your system after installing VS | 08:22.31 |
| | It won't be the configuration | 08:22.40 |
| DoopyDoo | alright brb | 08:22.52 |
| kens | It needs that file no matter what, its pretty basic | 08:22.53 |
| | chrisl ping | 08:23.25 |
| chrisl | kens: pong | 08:23.38 |
| kens | Looking at the build log there DEVSTUDIO is set as "" | 08:23.53 |
| | Do you remember if we have code in the makefile to set it correctly for the current version of VS ? | 08:24.17 |
| DoopyDoo_ | Ok I'm back | 08:24.33 |
| kens | Admittedly it *is* running the compiler | 08:24.36 |
| | wb | 08:24.40 |
| DoopyDoo_ | ok same errors as last time | 08:25.34 |
| kens | Hmm | 08:25.41 |
| | OK lets try a different way | 08:25.45 |
| | From teh start menu there should be a 'Microsoft visual studio' folder | 08:26.08 |
| chrisl | The makefile should make an intelligent guess at the install folder | 08:26.18 |
| kens | With 'visual studio tools' | 08:26.24 |
| | And in the tools should be a command prompt | 08:26.41 |
| DoopyDoo_ | There's a Visual Studio 2017 shortcut in the root of my start menua nd a Visual Studio 2017 folder that contains a tools directory | 08:26.42 |
| kens | Damn | 08:26.49 |
| | They've obviously changed that | 08:26.56 |
| DoopyDoo_ | developer command prompt? | 08:26.56 |
| kens | Yes that one | 08:27.00 |
| DoopyDoo_ | alright | 08:27.10 |
| kens | OK cd to your ghostpdl directory | 08:27.20 |
| | then type namek -f psi/msvc64.mak | 08:27.39 |
| | sorry | 08:27.42 |
| | nmake -f psi/msvc64.mak | 08:27.50 |
| DoopyDoo_ | hm. https://i.imgur.com/nEUvvuw.png | 08:28.07 |
| | I'll just copy it into this source directory or whatever | 08:28.24 |
| kens | Just cd to where you installed Ghostscript | 08:28.35 |
| DoopyDoo_ | oh wait I got it | 08:28.45 |
| | Had to just type L: to change the drive | 08:28.53 |
| | NOW it'll let me cd to it | 08:28.55 |
| kens | Indeed | 08:29.03 |
| chrisl | Thing is, I'm not sure anyone here has tried VS2017 and this is the kind of issue that comes up with new versions of VS | 08:29.03 |
| kens | I thought Michael had tried 2017 | 08:29.16 |
| | Can't ask him for 8 hours of course :-( | 08:29.33 |
| chrisl | I don't know..... | 08:29.38 |
| | I wonder if I've git it | 08:29.49 |
| DoopyDoo_ | https://spit.mixtape.moe/view/4bfed958 | 08:29.52 |
| kens | I suppose I could go get 2017 | 08:29.55 |
| | Hmm, so thats complaining about a space in a directory name | 08:30.17 |
| | Though I cannot see whhy, the path is wrapped in quotes | 08:30.47 |
| DoopyDoo_ | it is not | 08:31.04 |
| | there's only one quotation mark | 08:31.07 |
| | line 23, right? | 08:31.26 |
| kens | There's one at C: and another after cl | 08:31.30 |
| | line 20 | 08:31.40 |
| DoopyDoo_ | ah. line 23 only has 1 | 08:31.48 |
| kens | Yeah but that's the error report, not the ionvocation | 08:32.02 |
| DoopyDoo_ | let me make sure it's a 'real' quotation mark or one of those fake curly quotation marks | 08:32.25 |
| kens | Its from our makefile so it'll be real | 08:32.36 |
| | Guess I'll have to go fetch 2017 and try it | 08:32.53 |
| chrisl | I've got it | 08:33.14 |
| kens | I don't even have it downloaded, just 2005, 2008 and 2012 | 08:33.23 |
| | chrisl I''ll get a copy anyway, but it'll take a little while | 08:34.25 |
| | If you want to try it out first | 08:34.33 |
| chrisl | Building now - but it's already well past building echogs | 08:36.53 |
| kens | 5.8 GB good grief | 08:36.55 |
| | I wonder what incredibuild is.... | 08:37.24 |
| chrisl | I'd guess it's some kind of object file caching | 08:37.59 |
| kens | OK so why does your build work I wonder | 08:38.23 |
| | Hmm 4% installed this is going to take some time | 08:38.56 |
| DoopyDoo_ | maybe I'm missing a dependency? | 08:39.02 |
| kens | Oh and suddenly its 10% | 08:39.03 |
| DoopyDoo_ | it's pretty fast | 08:39.10 |
| | sec, I may have spotted something I'm missing... it was on the right and not part of the 'workloads' | 08:39.58 |
| | whatever I'll just check all the optional shit | 08:40.47 |
| | oh jeezus that's a lot of extra stuff | 08:41.07 |
| chrisl | You could also check if sys/types.h actually is there | 08:41.24 |
| DoopyDoo_ | it is, that's the first thign I checked | 08:41.30 |
| kens | Yeah it would be a load of stuff | 08:41.36 |
| chrisl | Okay - sorry.... | 08:41.48 |
| DoopyDoo_ | or.. I thought I checked it. | 08:41.52 |
| kens | Since it includes the SDKs for all kinds of things | 08:41.53 |
| DoopyDoo_ | What the heck | 08:41.57 |
| chrisl | Right, my build just completed | 08:42.07 |
| kens | Hmm, well give me a little longer, I'm only at 32% installed | 08:42.27 |
| chrisl | The nmake invocation is the same as one pastebinned above | 08:42.54 |
| DoopyDoo_ | hang on, I'm going to reclone the thing.. I didn't get any errors when I cloned last time but I don't seem to have a sys\types.h so maybe I tricked myself into thinking I checked it when I didn't | 08:42.56 |
| kens | It won't be in ghostscript | 08:43.09 |
| | That's part of the C library | 08:43.15 |
| | Finding it could be tricky | 08:43.44 |
| | For me its in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include | 08:44.01 |
| | But that's my old version | 08:44.13 |
| chrisl | kens: that can't be right | 08:44.37 |
| kens | It is for my old installation | 08:44.47 |
| | sys is under include | 08:44.55 |
| chrisl | Oh, VS2017 doesn't seem to have sys in there | 08:45.24 |
| kens | Well, that could be a problem | 08:45.32 |
| | But it ought to be somewhere | 08:45.38 |
| | 68% and counting.... | 08:47.32 |
| DoopyDoo_ | okay, with the C++/CLI optional dependency (why it is not default with the Desktop development with C++ workload I have no idea) I still get errors in the application but less of them | 08:47.59 |
| kens | Oh well that's interesting | 08:48.16 |
| DoopyDoo_ | it still can't find sys\types.h or whatever though | 08:48.25 |
| kens | Not good | 08:48.30 |
| | Like I said, that's pretty basic for C | 08:48.38 |
| | 82% and still going | 08:49.08 |
| | huh seems to have eaten 12 GB of my disk space already | 08:52.21 |
| | But its nearly done | 08:52.45 |
| DoopyDoo_ | ok I think I fixed it one sec | 08:53.26 |
| | https://i.imgur.com/iMHI0K6.png You need these 2 optional dependencies that aren't selected by default | 08:53.58 |
| | it's building | 08:54.19 |
| kens | Really ? the 2015 toolset ? How bizarre | 08:54.26 |
| DoopyDoo_ | yeah I tried it with just the C++ one but it threw errors (but less) | 08:54.45 |
| kens | Well the installer wants me to reboot | 08:54.48 |
| DoopyDoo_ | when I also enabled the 2015 thing it starte dworkign | 08:54.53 |
| kens | Back in a bit | 08:54.57 |
| DoopyDoo_ | build finished! | 08:55.57 |
| chrisl | DoopyDoo_: So, I think you're going to end up with an x86 build, there, rather than the x86_64 I think you talked about before? | 08:56.22 |
| DoopyDoo_ | Nah I selected x64 | 08:56.31 |
| | I got gswin64c.exe built | 08:56.37 |
| chrisl | Okay, cool | 08:56.40 |
| DoopyDoo_ | Now lets see if this fixes my issue | 08:56.52 |
| | It does! | 08:58.13 |
| chrisl | Well, that's good :-) | 08:58.55 |
| DoopyDoo_ | kens, I finished compiling and GhostScript is no longer crashing on the latest Win10 x64 | 08:59.31 |
| kens | OK well that's handy | 08:59.39 |
| DoopyDoo_ | The issue seems to be only on 9.21 stable. 9.20 does not have the crash. | 08:59.46 |
| kens | Probably something we already fixed then | 08:59.48 |
| DoopyDoo_ | Thanks for the help! | 09:07.57 |
| kens | NP | 09:08.00 |
| | I think I'm going to uninstall 2017 again, I don't have the disk space on C to install the VC++ 2015 v140 toolset and it won't let me install anywhere else | 09:08.38 |
| | MS seem to have lost track of the fact that disks are not infinite in size and people sometimes have more than one | 09:08.57 |
| | Ah but if I remove a bunch of crap it look slike I cna make it smaller.... | 09:09.46 |
| chrisl | kens: It's probably not worth the hassle | 09:13.10 |
| kens | May as well have it for next time I guess | 09:13.28 |
| | If I run out of space I can always remove it | 09:13.38 |
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