harbour error from cvs : unicows.dll

[norberto]

hi, i try compile harbour from cvs and get the error:

hbpp.exe : missing UNICOWS.DLL

how to solve this?

very thanks

[nightwalker]

Bcc58 bcc6x will have the same problem

bcc55 no error

[norberto]

hi, nothing for this? im only one using bcc58 and try to compile harbour from cvs?

[norberto]

HI, no one using harbour (cvs) + bcc??

[luiz53]

eu tive o mesmo problema e ainda nao consegui resolver...
minha maquina é windows 7
estou usando o bcc 582

[norberto]

Luiz, parece que somos os unicos usando bcc582+harbour svn. (seems to be only two using this combination , maybe they using vc or gcc or old versions of harbour).

[Antonio Linares]

Norberto,

Do you get the same error when you run Harbour ?

We have no problems at all using BCC582 and Harbour from its SVN repository. You can download our builds from here:

http://code.google.com/p/harbour-and-xharbour-builds/downloads/list

[norberto]

Antonio, sorry, the error is harbour (svn - last version) and bcc582.

[norberto]

Antonio, try compile with svn after 04/04/2012.

[ADutheil]

Norberto,

Have a look at this changelog entry

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2012-04-01 16:30 UTC+0200 Viktor Szakats (harbour syenar.net)
  * config/win/mingw.mk
    + solved mingw harbour dll and unicows problem, so now
      -shared Harbour executables built using mingw will be able
      to run on Win9x, "out of the box".
      (has a downside that now separate compile pass is needed
      to build objects with -DHB_DYNLIB (like with all the other
      C compilers), but I left it enabled anyways to give uniform
      support for unicows by default, including the nightly and
      official builds.)

  * config/win/watcom.mk
  * config/win/xcc.mk
  * config/win/icc.mk
  * config/win/pocc.mk
  * config/win/bcc.mk
  * config/win/msvc.mk
    * restored to link 3rd libs (currently unicows, if available)
      to harbour-*.dll with above compilers. These are currently
      noops (except for bcc, where it just doesn't work),
      they are fundemantally correct, but may require further
      C compiler specific mods.

  ; TODO: problem with bcc harbour-*.dll remains. unicows is present,
          specified, but ignored when linking, even though it's not ignored
          when contrib dlls are built using similar method. I leave
          resolving this problem to bcc users.
 

[norberto]

HI thanks, so last harbour dont work with bcc... changelog =>(except for bcc, where it just doesn't work).

someone from harbour team can solve this or time to change to visual c+ or mingw ?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

someone from harbour team can solve this or time to change to visual c+ or mingw ?

Time to drop Harbour and its team.

EMG

[norberto]

I know harbour its a open source project and we can not demand anything of the contributors, but breaking compatibility would be something wrong? type changed it to a compiler, and others be damned.

[Antonio Linares]

Norberto,

same error here. I have also reported it to the Harbour dev list.

In the meantime, you can download the most recent nightly build from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/binaries-windows/nightly/

And copy hbpp.exe, harbour.exe and hbmk2.exe to your Harbour bin/win folder so you can build Harbour. You need to "touch" (change date-time) them so the make won't rebuild them again.

Its a temporary solution, but it may solve the problem

[Antonio Linares]

Norberto,

Here you have it:
http://code.google.com/p/harbour-and-xharbour-builds/downloads/detail?name=harbour_bcc582_20120512.zip&can=2&q=

Temporarly it uses harbour.exe, hbpp.exe and hbmk2.exe from the MinGW nightly build

It seems to be working fine