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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @ErwanDelhoveUCL
      last edited by Alan Kilborn

      @ErwanDelhoveUCL said in Troubles building and executing NPP:

      the version I try to launch is located at “\visual.net\x64\Unicode Debug.”

      I don’t think it will run directly from there without “help”: I think you may have to copy some files into that folder as well first.

      I’m pretty sure to have the necessary files since there is no change on the branch I’m compiling…

      That’s not what I mean.
      Okay, here’s what I’d do as a quick test of your built exe:

      • Grab a released portable zip.

      • Unzip into a folder.

      • Put your build of notepad++.exe in that folder (overwriting the released one).

      • Try running that.

      I’m not saying for sure that this will solve the problem you cited, but it is worth trying.

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      • ErwanDelhoveUCLE
        ErwanDelhoveUCL @Alan Kilborn
        last edited by ErwanDelhoveUCL

        @Alan-Kilborn
        I did it with the most recent version(Notepad++ 7.9: Stand with Hong Kong) and it works fine.
        I think i found the issue: SciLexer.dll is baldy made or miss some elements(release version is bigger than generated one)
        1dae3752-ddae-4d56-b0ee-5de5054b5bc8-image.png

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @ErwanDelhoveUCL
          last edited by

          @ErwanDelhoveUCL said in Troubles building and executing NPP:

          SciLexer.dll is baldy made or miss some elements(release version is bigger than generated one)

          So I’m not sure what your goals are for building Notepad++.
          Maybe just for fun?

          But if you are going to experiment and change code, then you want to do this in the “Debug” build.

          And with that it doesn’t matter if for Scintilla the “release version is bigger…”

          So I think your issues are all solved now?

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          • ErwanDelhoveUCLE
            ErwanDelhoveUCL @Alan Kilborn
            last edited by

            @Alan-Kilborn
            I think that you didn’t understand what I wanted to tell you.
            I 'm speaking of the SciLexer.dll that I generate myself for the last version of the project. I’ve put the SciLexer.dll version of the release in the debug folder. When I executed the debug version again, it worked!
            I deduct so that it was my generated SciLexer.dll who leads to the given error. Maybe I made a mistake in my command line or something like that. So I’m going to investigate there.

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @ErwanDelhoveUCL
              last edited by

              @ErwanDelhoveUCL said in Troubles building and executing NPP:

              I think that you didn’t understand what I wanted to tell you.

              Correct. :-)

              I deduct so that it was my generated SciLexer.dll who leads to the given error.

              Maybe I made a mistake in my command line

              Hmm, I think if it builds, it should work.
              Again, as long as we are talking about a “debug” version of notepad++.exe running it.

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              • andrecool-68A
                andrecool-68
                last edited by

                @ErwanDelhoveUCL said in Troubles building and executing NPP:

                I think i found the issue: SciLexer.dll is baldy made or miss some elements(release version is bigger than generated one)

                1601900126368-1dae3752-ddae-4d56-b0ee-5de5054b5bc8-image.png

                The x32 and x64 versions have different file sizes!

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                • andrecool-68A
                  andrecool-68
                  last edited by

                  I got this file size:

                  000.png

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @andrecool-68
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                    • ErwanDelhoveUCLE
                      ErwanDelhoveUCL @andrecool-68
                      last edited by

                      @andrecool-68
                      A new problem appear with this following command execution:
                      78940876-e0ca-49e9-913f-a0cc1e0daff8-image.png
                      FYI i use the x86_x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017 as an adminstrator

                      I got this error in return.
                      It basically tell me that I should target the same processor. Because the Front end and Back end are not compatible.
                      ee12f393-e1d1-4c5f-953a-14a673814446-image.png

                      Any idea how to fix it?

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                      • ErwanDelhoveUCLE
                        ErwanDelhoveUCL
                        last edited by ErwanDelhoveUCL

                        I think I found a page for my error. Trying it right now and I will tell you if it works.
                        https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331753/thread/b2610e04/

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                        • ErwanDelhoveUCLE
                          ErwanDelhoveUCL
                          last edited by

                          Yeah it works. Thanks to you guys(@Alan-Kilborn ,@andrecool-68 ). I finally succeed to run notepad++ (debug version) with my own generated Scintilla.dll(x64 version).

                          Maybe we should keep this discussion at disposal for other people encountering the same problem (and I’m also not the only one to have 64 processor version ;) ).

                          What do think? Maybe I should add tag or something else?

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                          • andrecool-68A
                            andrecool-68 @ErwanDelhoveUCL
                            last edited by

                            @ErwanDelhoveUCL I am doing SCINTILLA cleanup with bat file CLEAR_SCINTILLA.bat
                            I did not know about other methods))

                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Accessor.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\AutoComplete.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\BoostRegexSearch.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CallTip.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CaseConvert.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CaseFolder.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Catalogue.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CellBuffer.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CharacterCategory.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CharacterSet.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\CharClassify.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ContractionState.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\DBCS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Decoration.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\DefaultLexer.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Document.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\EditModel.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Editor.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\EditView.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ExternalLexer.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\HanjaDic.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Indicator.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\KeyMap.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexA68k.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAbaqus.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAda.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAPDL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAsm.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAsn1.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexASY.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAU3.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAVE.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexAVS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBaan.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBash.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBasic.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBatch.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBibTeX.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexBullant.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCaml.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCIL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCLW.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCmake.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCOBOL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCoffeeScript.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexConf.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCPP.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCrontab.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCsound.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexCSS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexD.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexDataflex.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexDiff.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexDMAP.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexDMIS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexECL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexEDIFACT.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexEiffel.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexerBase.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexErlang.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexerModule.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexErrorList.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexerSimple.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexEScript.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexFlagship.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexForth.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexFortran.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexGAP.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexGui4Cli.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexHaskell.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexHex.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexHTML.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexIndent.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexInno.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexJSON.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexKix.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexKVIrc.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexLaTeX.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexLisp.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexLout.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexLua.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMagik.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMake.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMarkdown.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMatlab.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMaxima.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMetapost.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMMIXAL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexModula.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMPT.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMSSQL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexMySQL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexNim.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexNimrod.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexNsis.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexNull.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexObjC.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexOpal.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexOScript.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPascal.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPB.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPerl.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPLM.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPO.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPOV.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPowerPro.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPowerShell.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexProgress.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexProps.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexPython.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexR.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexRebol.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexRegistry.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexRuby.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexRust.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSAS.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexScriptol.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSearchResult.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSmalltalk.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSML.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSorcus.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSpecman.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSpice.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSQL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexStata.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexSTTXT.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTACL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTADS3.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTAL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTCL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTCMD.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTeX.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexTxt2tags.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexUser.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexVB.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexVerilog.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexVHDL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexVisualProlog.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexX12.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LexYAML.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\LineMarker.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\MarginView.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\PerLine.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\PlatWin.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\PositionCache.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\PropSetSimple.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\RESearch.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\RunStyles.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintillaBase.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintillaBaseL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintillaDLL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintillaWin.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintillaWinL.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ScintRes.res
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Selection.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\Style.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\StyleContext.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\UniConversion.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\UniqueString.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\UTF8DocumentIterator.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\vc140.pdb
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\ViewStyle.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\WordList.obj
                            del /f /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\XPM.obj
                            
                            del /f /s /q C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\bin
                            
                            exit /b
                            
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                            • andrecool-68A
                              andrecool-68
                              last edited by

                              @ErwanDelhoveUCL

                              It can be even easier to build a project if you run it from these three bat-files:

                              Run as administrator x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017

                              call "full_file_path\x32_x64_START_BOOST.bat" Enter

                              @echo on
                              
                              cd C:\sources\boost_1_70_0
                              call bootstrap.bat
                              
                              cd C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\libs\regex\build
                              C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\b2.exe toolset=msvc link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static address-model=32 release stage
                              C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\b2.exe toolset=msvc link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static address-model=64 release stage
                              
                              md C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x32
                              md C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x64
                              copy C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\stage\lib\libboost_regex-vc141-mt-s-x32-1_70.lib C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x32
                              copy C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\stage\lib\libboost_regex-vc141-mt-s-x64-1_70.lib C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x64
                              
                              exit
                              

                              Run as administrator x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017

                              call "full_file_path\x32_START_SCINTILLA.bat" Enter

                              @echo on
                              
                              cd C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\
                              
                              nmake -f scintilla.mak clean
                              
                              nmake BOOSTPATH=C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\ BOOSTREGEXLIBPATH=C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x32\ -f scintilla.mak
                              
                              copy /y "C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\bin\SciLexer.dll" "C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\PowerEditor\bin\SciLexer32.dll"
                              
                              exit
                              

                              Run as administrator x86_x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017

                              call "full_file_path\x64_START_SCINTILLA.bat" Enter

                              @echo on
                              
                              cd C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\
                              
                              nmake -f scintilla.mak clean
                              
                              cd C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\win32\
                              nmake BOOSTPATH=C:\sources\boost_1_70_0\ BOOSTREGEXLIBPATH=C:\tmp\boostregexLib\x64\ -f scintilla.mak
                              
                              copy /y "C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\scintilla\bin\SciLexer.dll" "C:\notepad-plus-plus-master\PowerEditor\bin\SciLexer64.dll"
                              
                              exit
                              
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