Re: [PATCH 1/1] contrib/buildsystems: fix Visual Studio Debug configuration

From: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2019, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8e7ff0b2-9f62-8ec6-5316-eb9cee25024e@syntevo.com>
In-Reply-To: <c89cc506-b515-b913-bb0a-353b04fe4210@iee.email>

On 27.11.2019 18:56, Philip Oakley wrote:

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> I just bumped against a potential issue like this. I was test compiling 
> [1a,b] the `vs/master` branch from Git-For-Windows and got the LINK 
> error that the 'libcurl-d.lib' was not found (4 places).
> 
> Error    LNK1104    cannot open file 'libcurl-d.lib' git-imap-send 
> C:\git-sdk-64\usr\src\git\git-imap-send\ LINK    1
> 
> Having just located this email, I changed the build type to 'Release' 
> and the errors disappeared.
> 
> Do we also need to identify where the libcurl-d.lib will be found? i.e. 
> is it something that needs including via the sdk pacman list (I think 
> I'm up to date but maybe not..)
> 
> A quick web search didn't show any hits for `libcurl-d.lib` (with the 
> dash `-`), though did find a few for `libcurld.lib`.

If you clone `git-for-windows` and build in VS using `git.sln`, it will automatically clone `git-for-windows\compat\vcbuild\vcpkg` and build various things there, resulting in

`git-for-windows\compat\vcbuild\vcpkg\buildtrees\curl\x64-windows-dbg\lib\libcurl-d.dll`

`git-for-windows\compat\vcbuild\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows\debug\bin\libcurl-d.dll`

`git-for-windows\compat\vcbuild\vcpkg\packages\curl_x64-windows\debug\bin\libcurl-d.dll`

Which will be picked up by solution to build git.

I have built Debug many times now and didn't have any issues. If you do, I would suggest to clone a new copy and build it.