Building Condor On Windows

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The instructions on building Condor in releases prior to 7.5.5, see Building Condor prior to 7.5.5.

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

Prerequisites

In order to build Condor 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 condor 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 condor'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. 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.
   • 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 condor .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 Condor 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 Condor with cmake on Windows

1.) Open a windows commmand prompt

2.) Checkout origin/master from the git repository, or download the Condor 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 Condor. If this batch file cannot find cmake.exe It will report an error.

5.) [Optional] set the environment variable CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE to the path of the externals cache to use cached externals. Using cached externals can save a lot of time if you plan to build condor repeatedly.

set CONDOR_BLD_EXTERNAL_STAGE=c:\scratch\condor_externals

6.) The cmake files support both in-source and out-of-source builds. For in-source builds execute

cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" .

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.) execute

devenv condor.sln /Rebuild RelWithDebInfo /project ALL_BUILD

msbuild condor.sln

start condor.sln

Installing

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

Testing

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

Packaging

Execute the do_wix.bat file in etc\WiX

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

Links

CMake Official Documentation

Google Code Search for open source examples

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.