[odb-users] odb 2.5.0 b25 installation on windows

[Marc Michalewicz]

Thanks for this fast reply.

i reassured that the command was input in the right way, afterwards I
retried again, and again with adminatrot privileges, but I always get the
same error-output. I have no clue what is wrong. My windows is Windows 10
Enterprise 21H2.

And sorry. Of course there is a where command in windows, I was a bit
confused ;-)

Marc




Am Do., 19. Okt. 2023 um 14:32 Uhr schrieb Boris Kolpackov <
boris at codesynthesis.com>:

> Marc Michalewicz <mmichalewicz6 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am following the build2-instructions for 2.5.0; until the install-step
> > everything works seamlessly but coming to this, I get several
> errormessages
> > of which I pasted below the start.
> >
> > C:\odb-build\odb-mingw>bpkg install odb
> > ld odb-2.5.0-b.25\odb\exe{odb}
> > error: unknown installation directory name 'root'
> >   info: did you forget to specify config.install.root?
>
> The config.install.root value should have been specified as part of the
> bpkg create command:
>
> bpkg create -d odb-mingw cc^
>   config.cxx=g++^
>   config.cc.coptions=-O2^
>   config.install.root=C:\build2
>
> Can you make sure you did not omit it by accident?
>
>
> > Apart from that it seams that the windows-install documentation was
> copied
> > from the linux-installation doc, because there is no "where" command in
> > windows
>
> No, the Windows installation instructions were not just copied from
> Linux, but they are very similar (which is the key point of build2 --
> uniform interface across platforms/compilers).
>
> And there is `where` command on Windows, provided you use a recent
> enough version. For background, see:
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/304319/is-there-an-equivalent-of-which-on-the-windows-command-line
>
> https://ss64.com/nt/where.html
>