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--- en:developer:windows_source_install [2018/09/07 03:14] – [Current instructions] anupama
+++ en:developer:windows_source_install [2019/05/10 09:21] – [Current instructions] anupama
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   * An SVN client installed, which can be downloaded from http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html. The instructions below assume a command-line SVN client.
   * Java JDK 6.x or later. For compiling on Windows 64 bit, need the 64 bit version of JDK. For compiling Greenstone 3.06 and onwards, need JDK 7.x or later.
-  * PERL (ActivePerl for Windows)
+  * PERL: we used to use ActivePerl for Windows. Now we provide our own modified version of [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/release-kits/shared/windows/perl.zip|Strawberry Perl]] that has everything we need so far.
   * **Visual Studio** 8 or later for compiling C++ code. (We haven't tried it with Microsoft's free Visual Studio Express yet.) For 64-bit Windows, we found that Visual Studio versions 9 and 12 worked to compile GS3 from SVN.
   * If you want to compile GS2 or GS3 with debugging on, you will also need Microsoft SDK
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 (The gs3-devel.bat will print a file not found error on Windows, since gs3-devel.bat runs gs3-setup.bat which refers to some files that the ant prepare step has yet to checkout.)
-Once the ''ant prepare'' step has //finished//, open a new terminal, go back to into the SVN Greenstone 3 checkout directory and run the devel script again before running the actual compile command:
+Once the ''ant prepare'' step has //finished//:
+[
+If you're using Visual Studio 14 ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#History|a.k.a. Visual Studio 2015]]; seems to also work with VS15/VS2017), then before proceeding, backup your windows iconv.zip and rename iconv-winVS14-VS2015-plus.zip as the new iconv.zip, as below. (For details on which libiconv this uses and how it was modified to get it to work with VS14, refer [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/indexers/packages/windows/iconv/GS-README-VS14-VS2015-AND-LATER.txt|to this]].)
+<code>
+pushd gs2build\common-src\indexers\packages\windows\iconv
+move iconv.zip iconv_preVS14.zip
+move iconv-winVS14-VS2015-plus.zip iconv.zip
+rmdir /s /q iconv
+popd
+</code>
+]
+Open **a new terminal**, go back to into the SVN Greenstone 3 checkout directory and run the devel script again before running the actual compile command:
 <code>
 gs3-devel.bat
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   * If you want to compile GS2 with debugging on, you will also need Microsoft SDK
-  - Checkout greenstone2 from SVN:\\ <code> svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/main/trunk/greenstone3 gs3-svn</code>
+  - Checkout greenstone2 from SVN:\\ <code> svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/main/trunk/greenstone2 gs2-svn</code>
+  - **NOTE:** If you're using Visual Studio 14 ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#History|a.k.a. Visual Studio 2015]]), then before proceeding, backup your windows iconv.zip and rename iconv-winVS14-VS2015-plus.zip as the new iconv.zip, as below. (For details on which libiconv this uses and how it was modified to get it to work with VS14, refer [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/indexers/packages/windows/iconv/GS-README-VS14-VS2015-AND-LATER.txt|to this]].)\\ <code>
+cd gs2-svn
+pushd common-src\indexers\packages\windows\iconv
+move iconv.zip iconv_preVS14.zip
+move iconv-winVS14-VS2015-plus.zip iconv.zip
+rmdir /s /q iconv
+popd
+</code>
   - Checkout the appropriate subfolder for your OS and bit architecture from http://svn.greenstone.org/local/greenstone2/ into your greenstone 2 checkout's toplevel folder. Name the downloaded subfolder ''local''. If you're on Windows 64 bit, then you'd do:\\ <code>svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/local/greenstone2/windows-64bit local</code>
   - On 64 bit Windows, edit ''local/setup.bat'' to set the environment variables to where you have got the following installed on your system: SVN, Java SDK 7+, the Greenstone customised Strawberry Perl (download it from [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/release-kits/shared/windows/perl.zip?rev=head|here]]), Visual Studio 9+ (Microsoft SDK is no longer needed even when the debug flag is turned on).\\ On 32 bit Windows, rename the ''local/setup32.bat'' script to ''local/setup.bat'', then edit it to set the environment variables according to your system.
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-In GS2 SVN checkouts from **before changeset [[http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/31428|31428]]**, compilation on 64 bit Windows could still fail with error messages as described [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:developer:compiling_apache&#compiling_the_apache-httpd_included_with_gs2_on_64_bit_windows_7|here]], which indicates that the race condition has struck. In that case, try deleting the ''apache-httpd\windows\error'' folder if it has been generated, or all of the ''apache-httpd'' folder and run ''makegs2x64.bat'' again, choosing the same options as before. If the 'error' folder or ''apache-httpd'' folder did not exist and therefore can't be deleted, then just re-run makegs2x64.bat again. If that fails, run ''makegs2x64.bat'' and select the ''clean'' command (option 6) and then re-run ''makegs2x64.bat'' to re-compile from scratch. If doing so in a fresh command prompt, remember to run the 'devel64-in32mode.bat'' script in ''local'' before running ''makegs2x64.bat''.
+In GS2 SVN checkouts from **before changeset [[http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/31428|31428]]**, compilation on 64 bit Windows could still fail with error messages as described [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:developer:compiling_apache&#compiling_the_apache-httpd_included_with_gs2_on_64_bit_windows_7|here]], which indicates that the race condition has struck. In that case, try deleting the ''apache-httpd\windows\error'' folder if it has been generated, or all of the ''apache-httpd'' folder and run ''makegs2x64.bat'' again, choosing the same options as before. If the 'error' folder or ''apache-httpd'' folder did not exist and therefore can't be deleted, then just re-run makegs2x64.bat again. If that fails, run ''makegs2x64.bat'' and select the ''clean'' command (option 6) and then re-run ''makegs2x64.bat'' to re-compile from scratch. If doing so in a fresh command prompt, remember to run the <del>''devel64-in32mode.bat''</del> ''setup.bat'' script in ''local'' before running ''makegs2x64.bat''.
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