Developing and Running Condor in a Windows Vista Environment
From Ben's Writing
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Requirements
- Vista Ultimate (SP1 is optional);
- Visual Studio 2008;
- MSDN (optional)
- Platform SDKs for Windows Server 2003: It turns out that if Condor is built on Vista with the Vista Platform SDKs, then it is not possible to run the resulting binary on Windows 2000. This is because the Vista Platform SDKs can only target as far back as XP and Windows Server 2003;
- Cygwin.
- ActiveState Perl;
Installation
- Install all the packages to sane locations, as some of our scripts are reliant on these locations. While we do look-up the system drive, some applications may not function properly outside of their default home (Usually the
C:\drive). - The order in which you install them is also important; for instance, the Visual Studio service pack should be installed after Visual Studio is installed. Also, for proper integration, the Windows SDK should be installed after Visual Studio has completed its installation.
Configuration
Some of this is directly from the NMI installation instructions
Cygwin
- Right-click your Cygwin shortcut, select Properties > Advanced ... > Check Run as administrator
- Click OK
Command Prompt
- Right-click your Command Prompt shortcut, in the Target text box enter:
%comspec% /v:on ...
where ... were the original optional parameters. The /v:on "[e]nables delayed environment variable expansion" which are used in the new MS Platform SDK environment scripts (they us "!" instead of "%" to surround variables). If we don't use this option, these new script will corrupt the environment variables.
- Click OK
Alternatively, one can make the settings permanent across all command prompts using the following registry hive:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] "DelayedExpansion"=dword:00000001
- Also, while you are in the Command Prompt properties dialog: click Advanced ... > Check Run as administrator
- Right-click your Command Prompt shortcut, select Properties > Advanced ... > Check Run as administrator
- Click OK
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
- Right-click your Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 shortcut, select Properties > Advanced ... > Check Run as administrator
- Click OK
File System
- Make sure to create a C:\Temp directory. Although a user's environment contains variables that point to their personal temporary store, these will not work with perl. So, if you see weird errors about patches failing to find files that are clearly there, then double check that the temporary directory has not accidentaly been blown away. (NOTE: Do not create this using Cygwin; it has a bad habit of adding all sorts of funky permissions that you'll end up having to change.)
Notes
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set_vars.bathas an extra variableUSING_VC8_TO_BUILD - Also see Editing and Building the Condor Documentation
