"build was unsuccessful" does not provide an explanation

[LabBEAN]

Temporarily disabled virus protection (right clicked Norton Internet Security systray icon and selected Disable Antivirus Auto-Protect).  Whem prompted, I selected a disable time period of 15 minutes.  Tried rebuilding.  It worked!

[Ray.R]

I'm not sure what I did, but the problem went away... 

I have not seen it since.. 

I didn't do anything special nor did I change anything other than reverting to a previous version of the code and going forward with that one..

I blame it on some "insane object" that must have made it to the block diagram...

[stevem181]

Just to add another data point to this discussion, I have seen this type of problem on my machine (Win7 LV2010 SP1).

Pausing Dropbox syncing when building applications solved the issue.

steve

[Timmar]

I have seen this before,

I use source control and had checked in the compiled .exe making it Write Protected.

Same problem if it is in use.

Close the .exe if it is running.  Remove Write protection.

Hope this helps.

[BlueNoser]

Trying to build an old project and I am getting this behaviour ("The build was unsuccessful" with no explanation).  I am using a different computer but the same version of LabVIEW that was used before (8.2.1).  When the build fails, the project window will not respond to inputs and I need to end the task using the Task Manager.

The only obvious difference (to me) is that the code is now in Subversion.  I took an old copy of the source that was not in Subversion and it still builds successfully.

I found some posts that talked about removing the .svn folders since they might cause build problems.  I made a copy of the code from Subversion and removed the .svn folders.  The build continued to fail with no details.

[acolbourn]

I doubt this well help but I get this error all the time and I just build a few times and it usually works after 1 to 3 tries.  I have my build directory in a dropbox folder though which I believe is what makes it so sporadic, so maybe the location you're writing to could be an issue if its on a share drive or something.  

[BlueNoser]

🙂

I have tried building it several times with no change.  Everything is on a local drive so it should be reliable that way.

I performed a fresh checkout from SVN to a different folder and build it without my updates.  It built fine.  That rules out the suspiscion that it was SVN related.  I have resorted to merging in VI's to the fresh checkout to see if I can narrow down which one is causing it grief.  Or until I can get it to build.  Whichever comes first.

[Jason_P]

I get the same error in both LV2011 and LV2009 if I try to run a build when the destination folder for the build is open in Windows Explorer.  Happens every time...

JasonP

[BriceS]

What version of Windows are you using?

Regards,

Brice S.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

www.ni.com/support

[Jason_P]

Windows 7, 32 bit.  Others have seen this too:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Building-an-exe-fails-no-error-message/m-p/1143499#M503350