[Scons-users] Intermiddent build error on Windows - cl : Command line error D8022 : cannot open 'c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpekylod.lnk'

[Shane Gannon]

Good advice Arvid. I'll keep that in mind.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Arvid Rosén <arvid at softube.com> wrote:

> I am in the process of switching to VS2015, SCons 2.5.0 and Windows 10.
>
> It has been painful at times. One issue seems to be related to Windows
> Defender and Search Indexing services opening and locking files just after
> they are created, which caused all sorts of errors for us when using
> massive parallel builds.
>
> Maybe that's not your problem, but something to watch out for.
>
> Cheers,
> Arvid
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> _____________________________
> From: Shane Gannon <sgannon200 at gmail.com>
> Sent: tisdag, september 6, 2016 8:44 em
> Subject: Re: [Scons-users] Intermiddent build error on Windows - cl :
> Command line error D8022 : cannot open 'c:\users\admini~1\appdata\
> local\temp\tmpekylod.lnk'
> To: SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
>
>
> Thanks William
>
> I forgot to mention something. I also tested the build with SCons 2.3.6
> (the 1st version of SCons with support for Visual Studio 2015). Noticed the
> same error there.
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:55 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Shane,
>>
>> There have been several recent inquiries into Windows file errors lately.
>> From the data we currently have, this appears to be Windows specific and
>> may require wrapping all the python file handling with windows32 API calls.
>>
>> Some of the others can give you more specifics.
>>
>> V/R,
>> William
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Shane Gannon <sgannon200 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of upgrading a Windows build machine. It's tool set
>>> is moving to
>>>
>>>    - Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
>>>    - scons 2.5.0
>>>    - msbuild 14.0.25420.1
>>>
>>> from
>>>
>>>    - Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
>>>    - scons 2.3.4
>>>    - msbuild 12.0.31101
>>>
>>> But I'm getting an unexpected error.
>>>
>>> *cl : Command line error D8022 : cannot open
>>> 'c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpekylod.lnk'*
>>>
>>> This can occur once or multiple times in the first clean build. i.e.
>>> With each occurence for a different file name. But if I then run a rebuild
>>> the problem resolves itself.
>>>
>>> The .lnk file seems to be SCons specific. It's created in the temp
>>> folder and contains something like
>>>
>>> */nologo /DEBUG /dynamicbase /fixed:no /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF -ignore:4042
>>> -ignore:4042 -ignore:4099 /nologo /DEBUG /dynamicbase /fixed:no /OPT:REF
>>> /OPT:ICF -ignore:4042 /dll /out:mylibrary.dll .......*
>>>
>>> i.e. The command to execute.
>>>
>>> On Windows *cl* eats this up with
>>>
>>> *cl @c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpekylod.lnk*
>>>
>>> and executes with the parameters found in the .lnk file.
>>>
>>> AFAIK this behaviour has existed in SCons since version 0.9.
>>>
>>> See
>>>
>>> http://www.scons.org/CHANGES.txt
>>>
>>> *RELEASE 0.90 - Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:24:52 -0500*
>>>
>>> *  - Use '.lnk' as the suffix on the temporary file for linking long    command lines (necessary for the Phar Lap linkloc linker).*
>>>
>>> But, for some reason reason, *some* .lnk files are not generated in time for me. Hence the build fails.
>>>
>>> Is this a known issue? Has it been introduced since scons 2.3.4? Is there any work around?
>>>
>>> I should mention that my builder
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Is a Windows 10 machine
>>>    - Has 20 cpu cores and runs scons -j 20
>>>    - Has 25Gb of RAM
>>>
>>> There may be a parallization problem here. But it is not an issue for the current build (which also uses -j 20). I experimented with using -j 10 but the problem persisted.
>>>
>>> I also choose to build only a sub-set of the projects. i.e. I excluded the tests. This allowed the build to pass.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
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