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For information about the conversion of the build process from project files to cmake see BuildModernization

Building HTCondor with cmake on Windows

In order to build HTCondor on Windows, the following prerequisites are required. They need to be in the PATH before you can build. There is a batch file msconfig\set_build_env.bat in the HTCondor sources that will locate the installed prerequisites and set the PATH for you if you don't wish to add them to your global PATH.

1. Cmake 2.8.3 or later, the Cmake\bin directory should be added your PATH.
   • http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

2. Install Visual Studio. Add it to your PATH.
   • Visual Studio Express (Free to anyone) https://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
   • Visual Studio 2008. Paid.
     • UW Madison staff can use MSDNAA: http://msdn04.e-academy.com/wiscmad_cs ; contact the CSL lab for an account if you don't have one. You'll get a .img file of the DVD. You can use 7-zip to extract the contents and install from there instead of burning a DVD or installing DVD emulation software.

3. [Optional] Start Visual Studio and Open Tools->Options under "Projects and Solutions" click on VC++ Directories and add the following to the Executable directories. This is not needed if you use msconfig\set_build_env.bat to set the PATH before you build.
   • $(SolutionDir)\msconfig
   • Move $(PATH) to the bottom as sometimes C:\cygwin\bin is in the $(PATH) which can cause issues with HTCondor's bundled binaries.

4. Install Active Perl. Add it to your PATH.
   • http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

5. Install the .NET 2.0 redistributable (Should only be necessary on Windows XP and earlier)
   • https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

6. [Optional] Install the Windows Platform SDK. (may depend on .NET 2.0). Any version of the Platform SDK should be fine. SDK 6.1 and 7.0 are both known to work. This is not required if you have Visual Studio 2008 professional.
   • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924

7. [Optional but Recommended] Install 7-zip. Add it to your PATH. 7-zip is not needed to build, but it is needed to make the HTCondor .ZIP file. You will not be able to build the PACKAGE target witout 7-zip.
   • http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

8. [Optional] install git and add it to your PATH, git is one way to get the HTCondor sources. It is not needed if you already have the sources.
   • http://git-scm.com/download

9. [Optional] Install WiX 3.0 on your windows machine (Depends on Visual Studio). WiX is not needed to build, but it is needed to create the MSI installer.
   • http://wix.codeplex.com/

Building

1.) Open a windows commmand prompt

2.) Checkout origin/master from the git repository, or download the HTCondor Sources http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/download.pl

3.) navigate to CONDOR_SRC

4.) add cmake\bin to your PATH if it is not already. One way to do this is to execute CONDOR_SRC\msconfig\set_build_env.bat. This will setup PATH, LIB, and INCLUDE environment variables to build HTCondor. If this batch file cannot find cmake.exe It will report an error.

5.) [Optional] If you want to use cached externals set the environment variable CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE to the path of the externals cache. Using cached externals can save a lot of time if you plan to build HTCondor more than once. For example

set CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE=c:\scratch\condor_externals

6.) The the cmake build supports both in-source and out-of-source builds. For in-source builds execute

cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" .

// assuming that the current directory is CONDOR_SRC
set _condor_sources=%CD%
md c:\scratch\condor\build_dest
cd /d c:\scratch\condor\build_dest
cmake CMakeLists.txt -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" %_condor_sources%

6.) Once you have used cmake to build Condor.sln, you can build on the command line or interactively. The options are

devenv condor.sln /Rebuild RelWithDebInfo /project ALL_BUILD

msbuild condor.sln /t:ALL_BUILD /p:Configuration:RelWithDebugInfo

Building Tests

Build the tests target in the Condor.sln Solution File. Once built you can run all the batch tests as before.

Copying Build results to the release Directory

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=c:\scratch\condor\release_dir -P cmake_install.cmake

Note: Building the INSTALL target in the Condor.sln solution file invokes this cmake file. It will copy build results to $(SolutionDir)\release_dir

Making the MSI installer

The WiX programs are used to create the MSI installer. Before you can create the MSI, you must copy build results to a release directory. See above.

To build the MSI, make sure that WiX is in your PATH, then navigate to the release dir and run etc\WiX\do_wix.bat passing the path to the release dir and the name of the output MSI file as arguments. For example, if your release dir is c:\scratch\condor\release_dir you would execute

cd c:\scratch\condor\release_dir
etc\WiX\do_wix.bat %CD% c:\scratch\condor\Condor-X.Y.Z-winnt-x86.msi

Gotchas

@SET FrameworkDir=Framework32
@SET FrameworkVersion=v2.0.50727

@SET FrameworkDir=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework
@SET FrameworkVersion=v2.0.50727
@SET Framework35Version=v3.5

Also, a portion of the PATH variable may have an incorrect entry which can lead to problems in the CMD interpreter. If in the same file you see a PATH entry like:

%FrameworkDir%\%Framework35Version%\Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (Pre-Release Version);

%FrameworkDir%\%Framework35Version%\Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1;

Environment variable expansion

CMD /V:ON /E:ON

This work is supported by NSF under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2030508 as part of the PATh Project. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Site built using CVSTrac.