Problems compiling with MsDev 6.0 (space in paths)

• Key: LOGCXX-53
• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Michaël CATANZARITI
• Reporter: Ivo Gaydajiev
• Component/s: Build
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0

Description

trying to build the log4cxx with (static library) MicrosoftVisual C++ 6.0 using
\log4cxx-0.9.7\msvclog4cxx.dsw
leads to
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Performing Custom Build Step on ..\..\include\log4cxx\nt\EventLogCategories.mc
MC: Compiling ..\..\include\log4cxx\nt\EventLogCategories.mc
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8447
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "log4xxx\cpp\log4cxx-0.9.7\msvc\Lib\Unicode_R\NTEventLogAppender.dll"
Error executing c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe.

log4cxxs.lib - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

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This happens only if in the path where the log4cxx is extracted has space ' ' fo example
"C:\Downloads\software\Logger\Apache log4xxx\cpp\log4cxx-0.9.7\msvc"

if you cut the space from "\Apache log4xxx" for example :
"C:\Downloads\software\Logger\Apachelog4xxx\cpp\log4cxx-0.9.7\msvc " you can build the project successfully

The problem occures also and for \log4cxx-0.9.7\msvc\dll\dll.dsp

I guess the problesm is in the .dsp files because the path are not quted. I have tested it only with MsDev 6.0 but it is possible to occure also and with .Net.

Comments

[Curt Arnold]

The current CVS HEAD no longer provided prebuilt MSVC projects but instead uses an Ant build script to build log4cxx which can also generate MSVC projects. I was able to successfully build log4cxx and pass the unit tests on a path with embedded spaces and the generated MSVC project files seemed to work fine. I did have to make some minor modifications to a few unit tests so the filename substition would occur before other replacements.