Godot: Error trying to build godot with Visual Studio

[codevenkat]

Godot version: 2d9b409

OS/device including version: Windows 10

Issue description:

When trying to build godot with visual studio after generating sln file with scons p=windows vsproj=yes, pressing build solution raises an error with build output with the following: Build option 'custom_modules' must point to an existing directory.. I tried commenting out lines 192-199 of the custom_modules code in SConscript in the root directory and it builds and runs.

Steps to reproduce:

• generate VS soln file with vsproj=yes
• try to build the solution

[jak6jak]

I can confirm that this is an issue for me too.

[Listwon]

@codevenkat @jak6jak can you tell me which versions of Scons and Python do you have installed? I can confirm that it raises error on Scons 4.0.1 and I fixed it here #42146

[Xrayez]

I suspect so, the engine has not yet officially switched to SCons 4.0.1 and new users are likely to just install the latest SCons version upon pip install SCons.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/a332e2f5b2d4acfda639701d719ff415d73c5d0b/SConstruct#L3-L4

Can be checked with:

scons --version
python --version

If there are other reasons for the failure, I think #42146 should fix it for both SCons versions anyway, being more reliable and forward-compatible compared to the current implementation.

[akien-mga]

the engine has not yet officially switched to SCons 4.0.1

The version in SConstruct is the minimum supported version. Using the latest stable version is always recommended.

[Xrayez]

Yeah, just saying that I wouldn't recommend upgrading from SCons 3.1.1 to 4.0.1 because of major update by definition, else that's asking for troubles if you want to utilize the engine in a stable manner.

By official I mean that even the lead developer hasn't switched to using SCons 4.0.1 yet, as far as I know. 😛

[codevenkat]

@Listwon Im on SCons 4.0.1, Python 3.8.2

[jak6jak]

I have SCons 4.01 and Python 3.7.4

[TimStokes47]

I had this problem and downgrading to SCons 3.1.1 fixed it. Make sure to delete all generated SCons files and the old Visual Studio files.

[Xrayez]

The fix is already there but has to be merged first to the master branch: #42171.