[Scons-users] Fwd: Problems with SCons building MongoDB C++ Driver

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Andrew,

On 07.08.2014 17:02, Andrew C. Morrow wrote:
>
> Hi Bill -
>
> Brian actually already did ping us over on the mongodb-user list: 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mongodb-user/2tr8AWdfHtI 
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/mongodb-user/2tr8AWdfHtI>
>
I had a short look at the thread right now.

> We are as puzzled as he is. I've never seen the Configure part of the 
> build fail in this way. The minimal SCons linked in the mongodb-user 
> group post works for him, but the same logic fails in the context of 
> the larger SConstruct for the mongo C++ driver.
>
Another thing to try would be to switch the Configure steps, so let it 
check for the C compiler first...and then the CXX test. Does the C check 
run successfully then? I'm not a Windows guy and have no clue either, 
but maybe a relative "cd ..." command in vcvars*.bat changes the current 
working directory? So, after the first Configure check SCons is not in 
the folder it's supposed to be anymore.

Other things that come to my mind:

- Try with the latest SCons version v2.3.2 from the development repo.
- Replace the "tools=['default',...]" list in the constructor of the 
Environment with the absolute minimum for C/CXX compiling:
     tools=['mslink','msvc','mslib','msvs']
   (not sure about the last one). Maybe some tool is going havoc and 
creating problems when loaded.
- Does the user have any D tools installed (dmd, gdc, ldc)? Support for 
these has been added only recently, so maybe it's the combination of 
D+VS2013 that mixes things up.

Regards,

Dirk