[Scons-users] msvc and "could not detect xgettext"

[Philipp Kraus]

Am 25.02.2013 um 02:02 schrieb Bill Deegan:


> Phil,

> 

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus at flashpixx.de> wrote:

> Hello,

> 

> I have installed Scons 2.2.0 under Windows. I create the Environment object with Environment() and Environment(tools=[]) and I would use the MSVC_VERSION item of the env object.

> On tools=[]  thsi flag isn't exists, but if I remove the tools option I get "could not detect xgettext", also if I run env.Tool("default").

> Can I use the Environment() call, so that my env object get the default settings without throwing the xgettext error?

> Gettext is a unix tool, why tries scons to detect it on windows, because why throws Scons this exception and eg not "javac not found" (if javac is not installed) ?

> 

> Is your scons source unmodified?


Yes, I have downloaded the source on scons.org and run the package installer



> Here's all the tools SCons should be trying to initialize on win32..

>         "prefer Microsoft tools on Windows"

>         linkers = ['mslink', 'gnulink', 'ilink', 'linkloc', 'ilink32' ]

>         c_compilers = ['msvc', 'mingw', 'gcc', 'intelc', 'icl', 'icc', 'cc', 'bcc32' ]

>         cxx_compilers = ['msvc', 'intelc', 'icc', 'g++', 'c++', 'bcc32' ]

>         assemblers = ['masm', 'nasm', 'gas', '386asm' ]

>         fortran_compilers = ['gfortran', 'g77', 'ifl', 'cvf', 'f95', 'f90', 'fortran']

>         ars = ['mslib', 'ar', 'tlib']

>         other_plat_tools=['msvs','midl']


is there a verbose output, so that I can check the initialization process?


> Are you by chance using cygwin's python?


Cygwin works well, so the problem exists only on the MSVC command line.

At the moment I use "hard coded" information, so I can use tools=[] with MSVC
the buildprocess works, but I would change this to a more flexible structure.
So I have time to check all solutions :-)

Phil
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