[ace] vcpkg install ace:x64-windows fails on Visual Studio 2019 16.5

[traversaro]

Host Environment

• OS: Windows
• Compiler: Visual Studio 2019 16.5

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
./vcpkg install ace:x64-windows

Failure logs
See https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/954522/internal-compiler-error-1925286104.html .

Additional context
This is not directly a vcpkg issue, but I recently discovered it, and as it will be only fixed with Visual Studio 2019 16.6 (that I guess it will not come out soon) I thought it was better to open a dedicate issue to raise awareness about this.

More details:

• vcpkg install ace:x64-windows fails on windows-latest since 2020-03-23 due to Visual Studio 2019 16.5 actions/runner-images#605
• https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/954522/internal-compiler-error-1925286104.html

[LilyWangL]

Thanks for your issue, it's very useful to other users who need install ace on Visual Studio 16.5.

[jwillemsen]

See also DOCGroup/ACE_TAO#1059

[ghost]

Applies to VS 2019 16.5.2 and 16.5.3 also :(
I saw somewhere it may be fixed in 16.6 :)

[SkyFire]

Still broke in the latest VS release. Micro$oft needs to get this fixed. I compiles in the preview version.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/

[jwillemsen]

See #11369

[jwillemsen]

Change has been merged into ACE, see DOCGroup/ACE_TAO#1114

[ghost]

Even after #11369 I am still getting an INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR...
I even deleted my vcpkg vs2019 instance and recreated from scratch:
2>D:\Git\vs2019.prod\buildtrees\ace\src\ACE-src-6-bbdc7cf805\ace\Process_Manager.cpp(144,1): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\Git\vs2019.prod\buildtrees\ace\src\ACE-src-6-bbdc7cf805\ace\ACE.vcxproj]
(compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1532)
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INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.25.28610\bin\HostX64\x64\CL.exe
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2>Done Building Project "D:\Git\vs2019.prod\buildtrees\ace\src\ACE-src-6-bbdc7cf805\ace\ACE.vcxproj" (Rebuild target(s)) -- FAILED.
1>Done Building Project "D:\Git\vs2019.prod\buildtrees\ace\src\ACE-src-6-bbdc7cf805\ace\ace.sln" (Rebuild target(s)) -- FAILED.

Attached log:
build-x64-windows-rel-out.log

[jwillemsen]

The PR in vcpkg has first to be merged, the fix is in ace but there is no new ace release yet

[ghost]

I apologize. I am still new at the git workings. I thought it had been merged, but I am mistaken.

[ghost]

FYI @jwillemsen @traversaro I was able to compile the current ace v6.5.9 with the newly released VS 2019 16.6...

[jwillemsen]

This should been fixed, @traversaro can you retest and close this issue when it works for you?

[traversaro]

This should been fixed, @traversaro can you retest and close this issue when it works for you?

Thanks a lot @jwillemsen , I checked in traversaro/reproduce-ace-vcpkg-github-actions-fails#2 and indeed this solves the problem, thanks a lot!