Avoid breakage when Visual Studio 2015 installed

springmeyer commented 9 years ago

The current release of Mapbox Studio v0.2.7 includes libraries internally that depend on Visual Studio 2014 CTP 4. This is fine is most cases. The libraries are installed on the system when the Mapbox Studio installer runs. And then Mapbox studio can use them and benefit from high performance rendering features that leverage the C++11 Standard (only available in pre-release Visual Studio versions).

However Microsoft has:

Now released a Visual Studio 2015 RC (release candidate), and;
Will be releasing official Visual Studio 2015 on July 20

Both of these installations conflict with the 2014 CTP libraries Microsoft previously released. This is not fun, but expected. So, if anyone installs Visual Studio 2015 then Mapbox Studio will no longer open.

@BergWerkGIS and I have been working hard to anticipate this breakage and prepare the foundations for a new Mapbox Studio release that will work seamlessly with both:

A Clean/vanilla Windows systems that do not have Visual Studio (of any version) installed, and;
Windows systems that have either Visual Studio 2014 or 2015 already installed.

So, the upcoming Mapbox Studio v0.2.8 will fix this. For users who have a broken install of Mapbox Studio currently please share the details below of what Visual Studio version you have installed and we'll try to help you troubleshoot.

wilhelmberg commented 8 years ago

Till the next release is out, a temporary workaround for Mapbox Studio 0.2.7 64bit is to:

download https://mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/windows-builds/visual-studio-runtimes/vcredist-VS2014-CTP4/vcredist_x64-mini.7z
extract vcredist_x64-mini.7z to a temporary folder, e.g.: C:\MBSDLLs (can be deleted afterwards)
copy all DLLs from C:\MBSDLLs into

C:\Program Files\mapbox-studio\resources\app\vendor

copy all DLLs from C:\MBSDLLs into

C:\Program Files\mapbox-studio\resources\app\node_modules\mapnik\lib\binding\node-v11-win32-x64

slibby commented 8 years ago

@BergWerkGIS That workaround worked like a charm for me - thanks for updating the issue.

wilhelmberg commented 8 years ago

@slibby Perfect! Thanks for lettings us know, that this worked for you.

P4z commented 8 years ago

Thanks for this quick'n'dirty but useful workaround, @BergWerkGIS ! Hope to see new release very soon.

In the meantime I created a very simple installation package as my NSIS homework for even easier application of your solution. The libraries archive is available as a self-extracting binary by this NSIS script thanks to the Crazy Tronners. :)

springmeyer commented 8 years ago

noting that https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-studio/compare/vs2015 is the branch that @BergWerkGIS has been working on that will solve this and with the latest commit we've moved to node v0.10.40 and all tests are passing on travis and windows /cc @GretaCB @flippmoke

wilhelmberg commented 8 years ago

For workaround with current 0.2.7 see above.

Next release will include needed files.

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