Windows 7 Build hangs after 76 of 76 modules?

Targets Windows
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I’m trying to track down a problem under Windows 7 Pro and I created a fresh WIndows 7 VM with all updates (64bit, 6GB, 2 cores), installed 2015r2.2 and the MBS plugins. However, every time I try to build the project, the compiler gets to the FileTypes module and hangs. No errors, it just hangs. When I check the task manager, nothing odd is shown in the way of memory, CPU, or DIsk I/O.

Has anyone run into a situation where built projects run on 7 32, WIndows server 2008 and 2012, and Windows 8.1 32 and 64 bit, but refuses to run on Windows 7 64bit?

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Actually, I just noticed 2 cmd.exe tasks and an xcopy.exe task that seem to belong to the parent Xojo process.

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does the project have post build or copy files steps ?

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Yes - Copies a single file from a folder on the same level as the project into a Tools folder that is created at the same level as the binary app.

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remove that and see what happens

sounds like the copy step is hanging for some reason

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That solved the build hang issue. On the other hand, the build resulted in a large number of empty “Build Failed…” dialogs appearing (25+, couldn’t count), but the app ran fine after I manually copied the needed file into the folder after the build.

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without knowing whats being copied and where to its hard to diagnose the issue

if you save the project as vcp and file a report with the copy file step fro the vcp I may be able to figure out whats wrong

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I revisited this today and even deleting the Windows build steps, saving the project, quitting Xojo, restarting and loading the project and re-adding them fresh results in the same hang in a build. I again remove the CopyFilesStep and the build completes.

This also happens on Windows 10 with a different project. As above, remove the CopyFilesStep and the build completes.

I haven’t seen the multitude of misleading build failed windows again.