[Scons-users] Help regarding IOError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))

Gary Oberbrunner garyo at oberbrunner.com
Tue Feb 4 07:14:45 EST 2014


What is your locale? Looks like it's trying to decode a multibyte string
coming from stderr.

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Gary Oberbrunner
(sent from my Android)
On Feb 4, 2014 7:08 AM, "Aseem Shakuntal" <kri80vt at outlook.com> wrote:


> Hello,

>

> In order to get started with scons, I created a simple "hello.c" and a

> SConstruct file which does this:

>

> env = Environment()

> hello = Program(["hello.c"])

>

> When I run scons from my folder which contains these files, I get this

> error:

>

> $ scons

> scons: Reading SConscript files ...

> IOError: :

> File "E:\scons-test\SConstruct", line 1:

> env = Environment()

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 991:

> apply_tools(self, tools, toolpath)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 105:

> env.Tool(tool)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 1692:

> tool(self)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 180:

> self.generate(env, *args, **kw)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\default.py", line 41:

> SCons.Tool.Tool(t)(env)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 180:

> self.generate(env, *args, **kw)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\mslink.py", line 242:

> msvc_setup_env_once(env)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 343:

> msvc_setup_env(env)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 436:

> d = msvc_find_valid_batch_script(env,version)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 390:

> d = script_env(vc_script, args=arg)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 292:

> stdout = common.get_output(script, args)

> File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\common.py", line 173:

> raise IOError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))

>

> I am using windows 7, 64 bit. I have python 2.7 installed (and also python

> 3.2).

>

> Can anyone point me to fixing this? Any help / pointers are highly

> appreciated!

>

> Br, Aseem

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>

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