Build fail

[magreenblatt]

The x64 toolchain should be included with Visual Studio. If I remember correctly it's included by default. When you installed VS did you uncheck any of the installation optinos?

[sam007]

The x64 toolchain should be included with Visual Studio. If I remember correctly it's included by default. When you installed VS did you uncheck any of the installation options?

I went into Change installation of VS and clicked on modify and found that under "Universal Windows App Development Tools", I had Tools (1.4) and Windows 10 SDK unchecked. I am installing it now. That should install toolchain right?

[sam007]

Ok even after installing those, I still can't use ninja to build and create cefclient.exe

Do I need to provide some variable so that ninja builds it in x64?

[magreenblatt]

There seems to be something wrong with your environment. I'd like to take a step back for a moment if that's OK.

1. What version of Windows are you using? Is it English language?
2. Are you using a normal user account?
3. Did you re-run cef_create_projects.bat after changing the VS installation?
4. How are you running the ninja command? Are you using a standard cmd.exe console window?

[sam007]

1. What version of Windows are you using? Is it English language?
2. Are you using a normal user account? Did you mean a normal window user account, then yes but I also have administrative privileges when required.
3. Did you re-run cef_create_projects.bat after changing the VS installation?
4. How are you running the ninja command? Are you using a standard cmd.exe console window?

1. Windows Server 2008 and Yes it is English
2. Not sure what a normal user account means? Did you mean a normal Windows user, then yes but I also have admin priveledges.
3. No, should I re-run cef_create_projects.bat?
4. I am running ninja in a standard non-administrative cmd.exe console window

[magreenblatt]

You should re-run cef_create_projects.bat whenever you make any configuration changes (environment variables, VS install, etc).

[sam007]

You should re-run cef_create_projects.bat whenever you make any configuration changes (environment variables, VS install, etc).

You are right. After the VS install and updating my environment variable with "DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN=0" I ran the create.bat again, which has call cef_create_projects.bat and the build has been running for quite sometime. It is building about 16845 items and presently is stuck on 16836 for quite some time. Here is the output.

[sam007]

Never mind, it completed. I finally have cefclient.exe and it runs fine. Thanks

[sam007]

Don't know if I should be opening a new thread but I am getting an error when I build now. Is it related to `gn`

Output

[sam007]

Got it. VS 2015 does not install C++ common tools by default. Install it separately and it works fine.