Building a standalone fails under LC6.7.8rc1 and LC6.7.7, but is fine under LC6.7.6

[Roger Guay]

I’m not sure if this helps, but I just built a Mac standalone of a 5 MB stack that uses the Copy Files tab to include assets in LC 6.7.7. Other than the scary amount of time it took ( a few minutes), I had no other problems. I am not  using the Answer Dialog, but I am using the Ask dialog in my app and I’m on OS X 10.11.

Roger


> On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
> I am looking for bug confirmation and troubleshooting help before I
> escalate this to LiveCode.
> 
> I have a large project. It builds fine under LC6.7.6. I downloaded
> LC6.7.8RC1 for testing. The StandAlone build fails under LC678rc1. And,
> it fails under LC677, but can be repeatedly built under 676 (or
> earlier). Development is on Windows, building for Windows and OSX.
> 
> The symptoms of the failure are that I get the following two errors
> (same error, once for the OSX build and once for the WIndows build) -
> EVEN THOUGH my app does not include its own copies of the answer dialog
> in the main stack or any substacks or any external stacks that get
> loaded at runtime.
> 
> A stack "answer dialog" in file
> C:/Users/Paul/Desktop/HR400-LC676/HyperRESEARCH/OSX
> x86-32/HyperRESEARCH.app/Contents/MacOS/HR_4.0.0.livecode is already in
> memory. The LiveCode UI does not distinguish stacks which have identical
> names, so editing these stack files while both are in memory could
> result in data loss.
> 
> A stack "answer dialog" in file
> C:/Users/Paul/Desktop/HR400-LC676/HyperRESEARCH/Windows/HR_4.0.0.livecode is
> already in memory. The LiveCode UI does not distinguish stacks which
> have identical names, so editing these stack files while both are in
> memory could results in data loss.
> 
> Then a error occurs which is one of our app's startup errors about
> missing components (external stacks loaded on startup) occurs and
> LiveCode locks up. It appears that after the errors above, LiveCode is
> reloading the my app FROM the standalone folder.
> 
> Looking at the build folder on disk, only the HR_4.0.0.livecode stack
> file is present. It has not been built into a standalone and none of the
> external files, set in the Standalone Settings > Copy Files tab have
> been copied into the folders. The lack of any of teh external files,
> could explain the 3rd error IF LiveCode is attempting to reload the app
> from the build folder vs the folder it was loading into the IDE from.
> 
> LiveCode locks up and a forced quit is required.
> 
> So, before I escalate to LiveCode, has anyone else had any troubles
> building under LC6.7.7 or under LC6.7.8rc1?
> If you have build standalones under either of those versions, have then
> been for both OSX and Win or just one of those platforms?
> If you have built under 667 or 668 for either platform successfully,
> does your app use the Copy Files tab to include any other stacks or
> files with your app
> If you have built under 667 or 668 for either platform successfully,
> does your app use any instances of "answer" to have LC include the
> answer dialog upon standalone build?
> 
> Lastly, does any one know if the Standaone Build process was changed in
> any way between LC 6.7.6 and 6.7.7?
> 
> Thank you to anyone in advance for any specific information you can provide.
> 
> 
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