Common compilation problems
General Problems
Windows
Compiling on MSVC 2003
Error code from "Copying message template"
- newview error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Copying message template"
This is caused by the script trying to do a copy command, but the source path isn't in quotes. Open up newview.vcproj in notepad, and near the bottom there are 4 line that say:
CommandLine="copy $(InputPath) .\app_settings\message_template.msg
replace them with
CommandLine="copy "$(InputPath)" .\app_settings\message_template.msg
The source and destination paths on line 158 may also require wrapping in quotes. In which case:
CommandLine="copy $(TargetDir)\$(TargetFileName) $(ProjectDir)
should become:
CommandLine="copy "$(TargetDir)\$(TargetFileName)" "$(ProjectDir)"
Unresolved external symbol _CLSID_DxDiagProvider/_IID_IDxDiagProvider
- newview error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _CLSID_DxDiagProvider
- newview error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDxDiagProvider
These errors reportedly occur with MSVC 2003 and certain versions of the DirectX SDK. To workaround, edit lldxhardware.cpp and replace the following (line 35):
#include <dxdiag.h>
with...
#define INITGUID #include <dxdiag.h> #undef INITGUID
Cannot open include file: 'ytab.h': No such file or directory
- indra.l (20) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ytab.h': No such file or directory.
Workaround: copy "linden\indra\lscript\lscript_compile\ytab.hpp" to "linden\indra\lscript\lscript_compile\ytab.h" and build again.
Cannot open input file 'dxguid.lib'
- fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'dxguid.lib' in ...
If you are using the most recent DirectX SDK ("December 2006"), your VC++ Libraries Directory may be wrong because the SDK's lib folder now has 2 sub-folders for x64 and x86. Try changing the path from.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib
to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86
Missing resources
- .\res\newViewRes.rc(64) : error RC2135 : file not found: ll_icon.ico
Some releases have missing files, which were reported to be last seen in the 1.14.0.1 release.
- Go to the source downloads page and grab the [1.14.0.1 viewer] sources.
- Explore the archive to "linden/indra/newview/res" folder and extract content to your "linden/indra/newview/res" folder into current revision.
Compiling on MSVC 2005
There is now a step-by-step tutorial for Microsoft Windows - Visual Studio 2005 & Visual C++ 2005 Express
What sort of errors are seen?
Error opening dxguid.lib
- fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'dxguid.lib' in win_crash_logger
If you are using the most recent DirectX SDK ("December 2006"), your VC++ Libraries Directory may be wrong because the SDK's lib folder now has 2 sub-folders for x64 and x86. Try changing the path from.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib
to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86
Missing resources
When compiling resources, it fail with several errors, the first being
- .\res\newViewRes.rc(64) : error RC2135 : file not found: ll_icon.ico
These files are part of the artwork package available on the source download page. Download and unpack the artwork package from your source root.
Cannot open include file: 'windows.h'
If you run into this problem:
..\..\..\boost/regex/v4/fileiter.hpp(44) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory
Fix it with this: (thanks Fairlight!)
set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include;%INCLUDE% set LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib;%LIB%
Other (older) notes
- Mozilla is not compatible with visual studio 2005, so we have not migrated the codebase, so we do not know if it works.
- Added my errors at User:Adam_Zaius/MSVS2005 Errors Adam Zaius 09:40, 8 January 2007 (PST)
- To minimize the number of warnings for now: in C/C++-Preprocessor add ';_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE' to the Preprocessor Definitions, that will supress deprecation warnings --Artm Udal 12:42, 8 January 2007 (PST)
Mac OS X
Getting:
- /linden/indra/newview/../llwindow/llglheaders.h:377:31: error: GL/glh_extensions.h: No such file or directory
- This means you didn't merge the libraries right.
Linux
- Blino's SL build/linking patches for gcc4: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/secondlife/current/
- objcopy: 'newview/linux_tools/exposed-symbols.txt': No such file
- Tofu says... 'This is an omission from our manifest which I'll fix. Meanwhile it's a safe fix to create an empty file with that name.'
- Something like: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
- Nadia says: Install the zlib development headers. (Ubuntu package zlib1g-dev, Red Hat zlib-devel.)
- Something like: indra.y.cpp:17: error: previous declaration of `int yyparse()'
- Tofu says... 'This appears to be a problem with some versions of flex/bison. A resident reports success when comment out the #ifdef __cplusplus lines in lscript/lscript_compile/indra.y'
- Nadia says: install the zlib development headers first and try recompiling. Commenting out those lines results in a error indra.l:666: undefined reference to `yyparse', after the zlib headers are installed.
- Miscellaneous errors about classes not existing, or referencing an undefined type
- Seems to be a difference between GCC 4 and GCC 3, with 4 being more strict about things. The solution has been adding "class TheMissingClass;" to whatever header files are missing the reference. For example I had to add "class LLUICtrlFactory;" to llui/lluictrl.h and llui/llviewborder.h
- Linking failures ("script not found") due to spaces in the LINKFLAGS variable?
- I saw a report, and modified the SConstruct file to drop the trailing arguments (and spaces) in LINKFLAGS.
- Building 20070112a using BUILD=releasefordownload I get many [: 89: ==: unexpected operator errors; cp: target `SecondLife_i686_1_13_1_7/app_settings/*’ is not a directory error, and same thing for character, fonts, help, skins, res-sdl; [: 111: ==: unexpected operator, [: 120: SecondLife_i686_1_13_1_7.tar.bz2: unexpected operator. I can succesfully run the client from the source tree.
- scons: *** While building `['.../linden/indra/i686-linux-client-release/lscript/lscript_compile/indra.l.cpp']': Don't know how to build a file with suffix `.l'.
- You probably don't have all the dependencies installed (I had the same problem). Check that you have flex and bison. --Random73 Janus 07:43, 16 May 2007 (PDT)
- Something like: linden/indra/i686-linux-client-release/llrender/llimagegl.cpp:122: error: `glActiveTextureARB' was not declared in this scope
- Tofu says... 'You'll need to install OpenGL headers if you don't already have them: gl.h, glext.h, glu.h (The ones from 'mesa' should work)
- two residents report good luck on Gentoo after doing 'eselect opengl set xorg-x11' (but note!! You must know what you're doing; this may change your default system OpenGL drivers, and you will probably want to change them back again after the compile, e.g. 'eselect opengl set nvidia')'
- Building Shared Library ELFIO Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux) on AMD64 ubuntu 6.10
g++-3.4 -shared *.o -o libelfio.so /usr/bin/ld: ELFIDynamic.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC ELFIDynamic.o: could not read symbols: Bad value