Problem with bldmake bldfiles for Series 60 SDK 6.1

[dml]

Hello,

I'm having big problems building the examples for the Series 60 SDK 6.1.

Whenever I run "bldmake bldfiles" the Pearl script generates STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATIONs (whatever they are). Here's an example...

C:\Symbian\6.1\Series60\Series60Ex\HelloWorld\group>bldmake -v bldfiles
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for platforms and exports
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Platforms: "WINS ARMI ARM4 THUMB WINSCW VC6"
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for WINS
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for ARMI
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for ARM4
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for THUMB
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Reading "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\BLD.INF" for WINSCW
( 1000) Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
( 1000) Dumping stack trace to .core
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\PLATFORM.PM"
Creating "\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\ABLD.BAT"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\EXPORT.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\EXPORTTEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\WINS.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\ARMI.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\ARM4.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\THUMB.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\WINSCW.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\VC6.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\WINSTEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\ARMITEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\ARM4TEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\THUMBTEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\WINSCWTEST.MAKE"
Creating "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\VC6TEST.MAKE"
Creating test batch files in "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\" for WINS
Creating test batch files in "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\" for ARMI
Creating test batch files in "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\" for ARM4
Creating test batch files in "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\" for THUMB
Creating test batch files in "\Symbian\6.1\Series60\EPOC32\BUILD\SYMBIAN\6.1\SERIES60\SERIES60EX\HELLOWORLD\GROUP\" for WINSCW

I've tracked the errors down to two lines...

In ParseBldInf:
eval { &Prepfile_ProcessL(\@Prj2D, "${BldInfPath}BLD.INF"); };

...and...

In ParseBldInfPlat:
eval { &Prepfile_ProcessL(\@Prj2D, "${BldInfPath}BLD.INF", @{$Plat{MmpMacros}}); };

...however, I don't know a great deal about Pearl, so now I'm stuck.

Unfortunately the problem seems to mess up the whole process. The resulting MAKE files don't do a whole lot - all their commands consist of...
"@echo Nothing to do"
...and nothing else!

My machine is running Windows 2000 Professional. My user account has administrator priviledges.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give,
Dave

[rbelwal]

Hi,

Please go to this link for solution to your Query
http://nkn.forum.nokia.com/devrel/threadshow.cfm?mb=5061606466647644&msg=9797081253918396&page=1

Ravi

[nanderso]

It looks like a problem with Perl, due you have the correct version ?
Typing "perl -v" gives version 5.005_3 on my system.

[dml]

Hello again,

Finally figured out what was going wrong. It's a bit obscure, but it's not impossible that others may encounter the same situation, so here are the details...

bldmake.pl loads a module called prepfile.pm which is located in c:\symbian\6.1\shared\epoc32\tools (i.e. the same directory). This is the module that contains the Prepfile_ProcessL function. It turns out that this function executes cpp.exe in C:\Symbian\6.1\Shared\EPOC32\gcc\bin
and it was cpp.exe that was causing the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATIONs.

The thing is, I already had a version of GCC/Cygwin installed prior to installing the Symbian stuff and it looks like that was what was causing the problem. I uninstalled the original version and the whole "bldmake bldfiles" process runs fine now.

Thanks to nanderso and Ravi for their help along the way.

Dave