Clarion 11, Unconditional Generation doesn't create new EXE/DLLs for unchanged APPs

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Jeff, have you tried turning off quiet mode in the ClarionProperties.xml? Maybe a message/error is being suppressed.

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Hi Rick - No matter what your output settings, you get the same message.

This is with ā€œDiagnosticā€, for example:

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Quiet mode is a different thing. It is a setting for the IDE that suppresses some .net errors that SV decided shouldnā€™t be displayed to the end-user.
Sometimes those errors are actually useful when a problem is occurring but you never know they happened.

Go to the Clarion configdir (%appdata%\softvelocity\clarion\c11) and edit ClarionProperties.xml.
Search for QuietMode and change the value to False.
Save and re-load the IDE and do your build again.
Be sure to edit ClarionProperties.xml when the IDE is closed.
Iā€™m not saying it will solve the problem, but you might get some additional messages.

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Thanks a lot @Rick_UpperPark :slight_smile:

Now I get an exception window with this. That will be helpful.

Thanks again.

Clarion Version : 11.1.0.13815
.NET Version         : 4.0.30319.42000
OS Version           : Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
Current culture      : English (United States) (en-US)
Working Set Memory   : 626244kb
GC Heap Memory       : 300580kb



Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException



Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

Exception thrown: 
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevels(SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.CreateSolutionProject(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext, String wrapperProjectToolsVersion, Engine parentEngine, String solutionProjectCache)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.Generate(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, String toolsVersionOverride, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Project.Load(String projectFileName, BuildEventContext buildEventContext, ProjectLoadSettings projectLoadSettings)
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.LoadProject(Engine engine, String fileName)
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.PrepareBuild()
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.RunMainBuild()
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hopefully something to work from.
Was there a post previously about the version of msbuild on the system causing a problem?

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From those results Iā€™d go through the cwproj and look for something odd.

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I dont turn any message off on a program because vmware has bit me enough times.

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I turned off quiet mode and now I get an exception too:

Clarion Version : 11.1.0.13855
.NET Version         : 4.0.30319.42000
OS Version           : Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
Current culture      : English (United States) (en-US)
Working Set Memory   : 248256kb
GC Heap Memory       : 13650kb

Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

Exception thrown: 
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevels(SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.CreateSolutionProject(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext, String wrapperProjectToolsVersion, Engine parentEngine, String solutionProjectCache)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.Generate(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, String toolsVersionOverride, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Project.Load(String projectFileName, BuildEventContext buildEventContext, ProjectLoadSettings projectLoadSettings)
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.LoadProject(Engine engine, String fileName)
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.PrepareBuild()
   at ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project.MSBuildEngine.BuildRun.RunMainBuild()
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Cant you see what the problem is then? :grinning:

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Pretty sure thatā€™s the carburator :slight_smile:

Something about a null reference (which is useful), but I am wrestling with the ā€œwhereā€ too.

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Email those exception logs to SV support and see what they have to say.

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It must know where its going wrong because its thrown the error out for a startā€¦

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I myself canā€™t make much of that error, but I did send it to SV yesterday, as I had been emailing them about this issue. No response yet but when I get it I will let you all know.

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I suspect the error and it is just a guess that an empty reference between tables was left.

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Do you mean a table reference in the Dictionary?

Just to remind you, everything works fine when I do Generate and Make with only one Application selected. One after another, everyone compiles completely with no error. But if I select two or more and press Generate and Make, I get the exception at the very end of the process, right about at the point it would be creating the exe or dll.

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The ā€œreferenceā€ is in regard to something in the .SLN. Not Clarion code. I am pretty sure the Clarion compiler doesnā€™t get the opportunity to run when this happens.

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Iā€™m not saying this would be helpful, but I guess you could adapt from this https://clarionhub.com/t/msbuild-example-for-clarion/274

Try try something similar to the following, replacing what you need for your setup.

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe "F:\Playground\GetExeName\GetExeName.sln" /p:ClarionBinPath="C:\Clarion\Clarion11.1\bin" /p:NoDependency="true" /p:Configuration="Release" /p:CopyCoreFiles="true" /target:Build /verbosity:diagnostic > validation_log.txt

I think you can also substitute the .sln (solution file) with a .cwproj (project file) if you only want to validate or build a single project.

You should then get a detailed log that may point you to the fix.

Good Luck.
Mark

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It is not clear to me if the error is thrown by the compiler or the generator.
It seems that it is the generator associated with the template engine.

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For me, the generator is causing the problem, not the compiler. But thatā€™s just my opinion. Itā€™s safer or more likely that the generator drags garbage than the compiler.

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@Gustavo_Saracca

It maybe, but obviously the UHE points to the MSBuild process, which is why I posted a possible way of finding out more detail from MSBuild.

To me, and not having the SLN and CWPROJ files to look at, their could be a corrupted or malformed Solution/Project File.

I have not had this specific issue, but when I have had issues before I have had to resort to removing an app from the solution. Deleting itā€™s CWPROJ, then add it back to the solution which recreates the CWPROJ.

Mark

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