Re: Build errors in VS

On 4/17/20 5:18 AM, Lin, Cuiping wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I build postgers with VS in windows, and the following message output
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> “ Unable to determine Visual Studio version: The nmake version could not be determined.”
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> I investigated the VSObjectFactory.pm, and found the match string “if ($output =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.\d+(\.\d+)?$/m)”
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> It works fine when no characters after version number, but if there are characters after the version number, it can not match the VS version.
>
> For example , VS in Chinese , nmake /? output “ 14.00.24210.0 版”

Hmm, odd, but I guess we need to cater for it.

>
>
> May be we can remove the ‘$’ ($output =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.\d+(\.\d+)?$/m)” => ($output =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.\d+(\.\d+)?/m)”
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>

That will probably be ok. If we do that we should remove the 'm'
qualifier on the regex too, it would serve no purpose any more.

cheers

andrew

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