Hi Ben,

Thanks for answering, but I'm still completely clueless. This time I've wiped out VS2013 and installed VS2010 (Ultimate) and tried

again - still the same.

When I switched from ActivePerl to Strawberry, I got slightly different error code :

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.30319.01

copy/b nul:+ win-mac.h autoconf.h

nul

win-mac.h

1 file(s) copied.

copy/b nul:+ osconf.hin osconf.h

nul

osconf.hin

1 file(s) copied.

copy /y krb5\krb5.h+k5-int.h+krb5\clpreauth_plugin.h private-and-public-

decls

krb5\krb5.h

k5-int.h

krb5\clpreauth_plugin.h

1 file(s) copied.

perl -w .\../util/def-check.pl private-and-public-decls .\../lib/krb5_32.def

_error_table' at .\../util/def-check.pl line 175, <GEN0> line 8448.

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.EXE' : return code '0x19'

Stop.

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'for' : return code '0x1'

Stop.

awk - I've renamed awk script from the Windows\SUA\bin into awk.exe and copied into C:\awk (available in PATH).

When I run awk from SDK 7.1 command prompt, it seems everything is fine :

c:\Users\User\Downloads\krb5\src>awk

Usage: awk [-f programfile | 'program'] [-Ffieldsep] [-v var=value] [files]

procedure - Here's the complete procedure I'm using :

- installed VS2010 Ultimate

- installed SDK 7.1

- installed latest updates from Windows Update

- installed the latest subsystem for UNIX-based apps for Windows 7 (hmm, instructions at

http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Kerberos_for_Windows_%28KfW%29_Build_Environment have different version targeting Vista?)

- installed WiX 3.5 using the installer (not binary package)

- updated PATH so candle.exe is available

candle.exe - also works from cmd prompt :

c:\Users\User\Downloads\krb5\src>candle.exe --help

Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 3.5.2519.0

usage: candle.exe [-?] [-nologo] [-out outputFile] sourceFile [sourceFile ...]

[@responseFile]

-arch set platform defaults for package, components, etc.

values: x86, x64, or ia64 (default: x86)

...

source code - tried both master and kfw-4.0.1-final branches (which one should I use?). Result is the same.

vs cmd prompt - tried to use VS command prompt instead of SDK 7.1 cmd - again the same error

From the error it looks like I'm missing something as def-check.pl script fails to find _error_table, but have

no clue why (where should I get _error_table from?).

Please help.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:10 PM, kaduk <notifications@github.com> wrote:

I'm going to close this github issue, since we are using a mixed workflow which only uses github pull requests, and keeps bug/issue tracking on our RT instance at krbdev.mit.edu. Please follow-up with mail to krb5-bugs@mit.edu.

That said, I believe the current git master (6649798) is buildable on windows, at least on my test system which is running Windows 7 Enterprise and using Visual Studio 2010. Perhaps I should have a test system with Visual Studio 2013 around just on general principles; I'll see if I can work on that.

The first thing that comes to mind as a potential issue is the availability of 'awk', though I don't remember its absence presenting in this fashion. In the command prompt from which you're running nmake, can you successfully run awk (just 'awk' should print a usage message)?

If that works as expected, can you send the full list of what you did for each of the steps 1 through 6 in your email? I am also slightly curious what the error message looks like when Strawberry Perl is used, though I agree with you that the perl is unlikely to actually be the culprit.

-Ben

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