Impossible to build OpenMSX about openmsx HOT 15 OPEN

Hi,

Can you be more specific on what is going wrong?

The thing is, none of the developers are Windows users. But we got the Windows build to work on GitHub Actions. So, if you are able to perform the steps from that, you should be able to do it. And with these steps and your experiences, we can improve the documentation.
So, please be very concrete about what you're running into and what it is that is different from the steps on the GitHub Actions. See https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/blob/master/.github/actions/build/action.yml
There is both a MinGW build and a Visual Studio based build done in there.

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@MBilderbeek Sorry, I should have shared my environment details earlier. I'm running Visual Studio 2023 / MSYS2 20231026 on Windows 11 Build 22631.2861. I did Google a bit the issue and found that I needed to install Qt as well to build on Windows with Visual Studio? I haven't installed Qt yet though, just cleaned up my PC a couple of days ago. Looking into the Github actions now.

@Vampier that would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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I assumed that you were talking about openMSX, not another application like Catapult or the separate debugger. In that case, you do not need Qt.

Are you building the latest git code?

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Yes, I was trying to build OpenMSX only from the latest Git codebase.

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Good, then no Qt needed at all. Just tell us what exactly you are running into and we can try to help. As we are building for windows automatically, I still think that method must be working also for you.

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@MBilderbeek Looking at the Github Actions, I have no issue downloading Windows dependencies and building them but running msbuild /m /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64 build\msvc\openmsx.sln /m will throw this error:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(254,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for '..\..\src\openmsx.hh' exited with code 9009

Looking at the file in question:

<CustomBuild Condition ="'@(_CustomBuild)' != ''"
      Sources                     ="@(_CustomBuild)"
      BuildSuffix                 ="$(_BuildSuffix)"

      MinimalRebuildFromTracking  ="false"
      AcceptableNonZeroExitCodes  ="%(_CustomBuild.AcceptableNonZeroExitCodes)"
      StdOutEncoding = "%(_CustomBuild.StdOutEncoding)"
      StdErrEncoding = "%(_CustomBuild.StdErrEncoding)"
    >
    </CustomBuild>

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Using MinGW to build OpenMSX failed when downloading the package pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz with error: urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006 error

Downloading the package manually and placing it in the proper directory fixed this issue but later in the process I get:

make -C derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2
make[3]: Entering directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx/derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2'
Makefile:312: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx/derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2'
make[2]: *** [build/3rdparty.mk:156: derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/timestamps/build-pkg-config-0.29.2] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx'
make[1]: *** [build/main.mk:624: run-3rdparty] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx'
make: *** [build/main.mk:614: 3rdparty] Error 2

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@MBilderbeek Looking at the Github Actions, I have no issue downloading Windows dependencies and building them but running msbuild /m /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64 build\msvc\openmsx.sln /m will throw this error: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(254,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for '..\..\src\openmsx.hh' exited with code 9009

Looking at the file in question:

<CustomBuild Condition ="'@(_CustomBuild)' != ''"
      Sources                     ="@(_CustomBuild)"
      BuildSuffix                 ="$(_BuildSuffix)"

      MinimalRebuildFromTracking  ="false"
      AcceptableNonZeroExitCodes  ="%(_CustomBuild.AcceptableNonZeroExitCodes)"
      StdOutEncoding = "%(_CustomBuild.StdOutEncoding)"
      StdErrEncoding = "%(_CustomBuild.StdErrEncoding)"
    >
    </CustomBuild>

What can I say? It works on GitHub Actions, so I'm not sure what's going wrong. That error code seems to be a 'file not found' but I can't see which command was running and which file was not found. I'm not running Windows myself, so I can't try it (hence my pointing to GitHub Actions).

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Using MinGW to build OpenMSX failed when downloading the package pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz with error: urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006 error

Downloading the package manually and placing it in the proper directory fixed this issue but later in the process I get:

make -C derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2
make[3]: Entering directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx/derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2'
Makefile:312: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx/derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/build/pkg-config-0.29.2'
make[2]: *** [build/3rdparty.mk:156: derived/x86_64-mingw-w64-opt-3rd/3rdparty/timestamps/build-pkg-config-0.29.2] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx'
make[1]: *** [build/main.mk:624: run-3rdparty] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/Steven/source/repos/openmsx'
make: *** [build/main.mk:614: 3rdparty] Error 2

Also strange. The same file is downloaded from Linux just fine. We cross-compile on Linux to Windows on GitHub Actions.

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Yes, when building from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), I had no issue downloading dependencies. The reason I don't run WSL anymore (or at least right now) is because it disables overclocking and hurt performance in some games I run on my PC.

I used the Github Actions to build with MSBuild but still got the same errors. Could be that OpenMSX uses a previous version of VC++ that I'm missing in my VS install? I will investigate further to find out.

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You can see which version is used on the GitHub Actions runners overview: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/windows/Windows2022-Readme.md Looks like it's Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 (we use windows-latest).

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Any news?

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I haven't looked into it lately. Will try to build again later tonight and update my comment.

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Any results?

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