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schellingb / ZillaLib

Sleek multiplatform C++ 2D and 3D game creation!
https://zillalib.github.io/
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Build error on VS2012 #3

Closed tobybear closed 4 years ago

tobybear commented 5 years ago

At the moment, neither the actually library nor any Zillalib project compile on VS2012, the build process is immediately terminated with this cryptic error message:

Error: 'pathToFile' cannot be an empty string ("") or start with the null character.

The reason for this is found in the project settings under "Configuration Properties - General - Build Log File". Here the invalid string value "nul:" is given, which makes VS fail. If this is removed in all configurations for all solutions, it works fine again.

This setting can alternatively also be changed directly in the ZillaLib-vs.vcxproj file, just remove this line: <ItemDefinitionGroup><BuildLog><Path>nul:</Path></BuildLog></ItemDefinitionGroup>

schellingb commented 5 years ago

Hi there

Thank you so much for trying this project! Especially in VS2012 which I don't have installed anymore but I blindly assumed something that builds in VC6 and VS2013 would be fine.

Overwriting the BuildLog to "nul:" I wasn't happy about anyway but I just saw a way to get rid of another useless output file so I took it. I'll remove it or add a condition to ignore it in 2012. Good you found this, the error message alone is indeed useless.

Thanks!

schellingb commented 4 years ago

This should be fixed by commit f23bf5164ad986ff02a03032d4556b59765586d7 Thanks again for reporting