[Scons-dev] Appveyor testing platforms

[Bill Deegan]

By default scons does not use  os.environ's PATH.
The test framework does for some tools though ideally SCons would cover
reasonable default paths for windows tools.

If the install path in appveyor is not a reasonable default, then it may
make sense to have the test find the path and provide it to the test logic.
Otherwise it's more "sconsian" to add the reasonable default into the tool
logic.

Can you add information about the tools provided to the PR summary?
Just trying to make it easier for folks to trace back any logic changes to
infrastructure (and code) to the PR's and their expected effects.



On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:40 AM Daniel Moody <dmoody256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm fairly certain that even though most of these tools are installed,
> they are not part of the default PATH, so you may need to add them near the
> top of the appveyor file where we add some other things like mingw. Also
> depends on how the tools are being found in scons code, is the os.environ
> used at all or is it just assumed default paths? You may have to ask
> appveyor support where the WIX tools are installed. Do you know a common
> place they would be? The new appveyor.yml should call set to print the env
> to the log, so you could check the path.
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:26 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
>> On 1/30/19 10:12 AM, Daniel Moody wrote:
>> > Windows Server 2012:
>> > Visual Studio 2008 Express
>> > Visual Studio 2010 Pro/Express
>> > Visual Studio 2012 Pro/Express
>> > Visual Studio 2013 Community
>> > Visual Studio 2015 Community
>> >
>> > Windows Server 2016:
>> > Visual Studio 2015 Community
>> > Visual Studio 2017 Community
>> >
>> > Also software versions for the different Windows can be found:
>> > https://www.appveyor.com/docs/windows-images-software/
>>
>> Okay, this was interesting... I've tried adding wix toolset
>> (https://github.com/SCons/scons/pull/3204), and that causes the build to
>> break.  But according to that chart, it's already included, under Misc
>> SDKs:
>>
>> WiX Toolset 3.11.0.1701
>>
>> So why are we not finding the preinstalled one?
>>
>> Some of the entries show the paths to look at, but wix isn't one of those.
>>
>>
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