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

[Philipp Kraus]

On 2013-02-25 04:10:15 +0100, William Deegan said:


> Phil,

> On Feb 24, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus at flashpixx.de> wrote:

> 

> 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) ?

> 

> 

> 

> 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?

> Not for all tools.

> 

> 

> Are you by chance using cygwin's python?

> 

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

> 

> That was not the question I was asking.

> Which python are you using?

> A win3 2 python build, or cygwin, or other?


On the MSVC command line I use win32 Python 2.7.3
On Cygwin I use Cygwin's build-in python.

IMHO the env.Tool / Environment( tools = ... ) seems to be a problem, I 
need check it
and modify it

Phil