r19675 - /website/windows_devel.html -- May 08, 2013 - 11:13

Author: bugman
Date: Wed May  8 11:13:56 2013
New Revision: 19675

URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax?rev=19675&view=rev
Log:
Updated the SCons bug details at http://www.nmr-relax.com/windows_devel.html 
for the fixes in 2.3.1.

The 32-bit MSVC on 64-bit MS Windows issue has now finally been fixed
(http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2849).


Modified:
    website/windows_devel.html

Modified: website/windows_devel.html
URL: 
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/website/windows_devel.html?rev=19675&r1=19674&r2=19675&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- website/windows_devel.html (original)
+++ website/windows_devel.html Wed May  8 11:13:56 2013
@@ -208,11 +208,11 @@
 
      <h3 id="MSVS_scons_issues_32bit">2.4.3 SCons issues (32-bit MSVC 
compiler on 64-bit MS Windows)</h3>
 
-      <p>A similar error message is seen if you use the 32-bit MSVC compiler 
on 64-bit MS Windows.  You will probably see the error:</p>
+      <p>A similar error message is seen if you use the 32-bit MSVC compiler 
on 64-bit MS Windows.  This is for all SCons versions &#060;= 2.3.0.  After 
typing 'scons', you will see the error:</p>
 
       <em>'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
operable program or batch file.</em>
 
-      <p>This is caused by a <a 
href="http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2849";>bug in the SCons 
program that the SCons developers stubbornly refuse to fix</a>.  The fix is 
quite simple, just find the Tools/MSCommon/vc.py or Tool/MSCommon/vc.py file 
in your installed SCons version.  Find the msvc_find_valid_batch_script() 
function in that file.  Then change the line:</p>
+      <p>This is caused by a <a 
href="http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2849";>bug in the SCons 
program</a>.  The fix is quite simple, just find the Tools/MSCommon/vc.py or 
Tool/MSCommon/vc.py file in your installed SCons version.  Find the 
msvc_find_valid_batch_script() function in that file.  Then change the 
line:</p>
       <ul class="code_ul">
        <li>if not req_target_platform and target_platform in 
('amd64','x86_64'):</li>
       </ul>
@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@
       <ul class="code_ul">
        <li>if target_platform in ('amd64','x86_64'):</li>
       </ul>
+
+      <p>However the best option is to upgrade to SCons version 2.3.1 or 
higher.</p>
 
    </div>
   </div>