Hi

I am trying to build exiv2 with MSVC2008EE. I have tried this with
both the 0.17.1 tarball and with a fresh SVN checkout. The SVN
checkout is obviously more important for the project, hence the rest
of my report is for SVN checkout.

I followed the instructions in the README file.

I copied a version of libexpat.lib that is known to work into \msvc\lib

I started \msvc\exiv2.sln and let the wizard convert it

I changed the property "Link Library Dependencies" of the exiv2lib
project to "Yes"

I hit F7 to build the solution (Debug).

SVN: on the first run 17 projects succeeded to build and 4 failed.
Hitting F7 again and the 4 missing builds succeded, suggesting that
this may be a dependency / build order thing (but I am a newbie, so
don't rely on me to debug this).

the relevant lines that failed in the first run:

2>BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file '.\Debug\xmpsample.sbr': No
such file or directory
2>Build log was saved at
"file://z:\store\r1tb\huginbase\exiv2.src.svn\msvc\xmpsample\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
2>xmpsample - 2 error(s), 1 warning(s)
3>z:\store\r1tb\huginbase\exiv2.src.svn\samples\xmpparse.cpp(5) :
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'exiv2/basicio.hpp': No
such file or directory
3>BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file '.\Debug\xmpparse.sbr': No
such file or directory
3>xmpparse - 2 error(s), 1 warning(s)
4>z:\store\r1tb\huginbase\exiv2.src.svn\samples\xmpparser-test.cpp(5)
: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'exiv2/basicio.hpp': No
such file or directory
4>BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file
'.\Debug\xmpparser-test.sbr': No such file or directory
4>xmpparser-test - 2 error(s), 1 warning(s)
6>z:\store\r1tb\huginbase\exiv2.src.svn\samples\exifdata-test.cpp(13)
: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'exiv2/image.hpp': No
such file or directory
6>exifdata-test - 1 error(s), 1 warning(s)

When I want to build Release, I get 21 failures and nothing moves.

If the error is on my side, please give me feedback. I hope my
feedback is helpful to make exiv2 building on Windows more robust.

With 0.17.1 I get similar results.

can anybody help me?

thanks
Yuv