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[Package Issue]: SWIG.SWIG: `swig.exe <file>` always fails because `swig.exe -swiglib` is wrong
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Description
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- I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
- I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.
Category of the issue
Other
Brief description of your issue
The swig.exe placed on the system path fails immediately for any input file. SWIG needs to find its standard library dir at runtime, which swig.exe -swiglib is supposed to print. On my machine, the output is the nonexistent path %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\Lib. I found the dir it wants within Packages instead of Links.
CMake is also failing on a project with find_package(SWIG REQUIRED). It finds swig.exe in the WinGet\Links dir, then calls it with -swiglib, sees the result is a broken path, and then fails configuring the project due to "SWIG not found".
Steps to reproduce
- Install as a normal user with
winget install -e SWIG.SWIG - Create an empty file and run
swig -python -module empty <empty file> - Check output of
swig -swiglib
Actual behavior
Running SWIG:
C:\Users\User>swig -python -module empty empty.txt
(999999) : Error: Unable to find 'swig.swg'
(2) : Error: Unable to find 'python.swg'
Checking -swiglib output:
PS C:\Users\User> swig.exe -swiglib
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\Lib
PS C:\Users\User> dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\Lib
dir : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\Lib' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\Lib
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Users\User\A...inGet\Links\Lib:String) [Get-ChildItem], ItemNotFound
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand
PS C:\Users\User> dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\
Directory: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---l 8/16/2024 4:43 PM 0 ccache-swig.exe
-a---l 8/16/2024 4:43 PM 0 swig.exe
Finding correct path:
PS C:\Users\User> dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\SWIG.SWIG_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\swigwin-4.2.1\Lib
Directory: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\SWIG.SWIG_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\sw
igwin-4.2.1\Lib
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM csharp
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM d
d----- 8/16/2024 4:42 PM go
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM guile
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM java
d----- 8/16/2024 4:42 PM javascript
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM lua
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM mzscheme
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM ocaml
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM octave
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM perl5
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM php
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM python
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM r
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM ruby
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM scilab
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM std
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM tcl
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM typemaps
d----- 8/16/2024 4:43 PM xml
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 748 allkw.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 496 attribute.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2804 carrays.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2834 cdata.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2354 cmalloc.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 7156 constraints.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 3630 cpointer.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 324 cstring.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 265 cwstring.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 512 director_common.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 8745 exception.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 1819 intrusive_ptr.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 1588 inttypes.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 1623 javascriptkw.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 512 linkruntime.c
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2274 math.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 1236 runtime.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2202 shared_ptr.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2368 stdint.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 2099 std_except.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 249 stl.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 25909 swig.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 1060 swigarch.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 944 swigcompat.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 565 swigerrors.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 3351 swigfragments.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 8126 swiginit.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 3922 swiglabels.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 256 swigrun.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 17235 swigrun.swg
------ 2/24/2024 7:36 AM 15654 swigwarn.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 7305 swigwarnings.swg
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 309 wchar.i
------ 2/23/2024 10:57 PM 4181 windows.i
Expected behavior
The empty swig command should exit successfully with no output (and creating some files). The output of swig -swiglib should be a directory containing swig.swg among other files.
Environment
C:\Users\User>winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.8.1911
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22621.3880
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0
Winget Directories
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Logs %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
Portable Links Directory (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86) C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
Links
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Privacy Statement https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale
Admin Setting State
--------------------------------------------------
LocalManifestFiles Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions Disabled
DefaultProxy Disabled
C:\Users\User>winget list
Name Id Version Source
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Git Git.Git 2.46.0 winget
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions 7.0.14 ARP\Machine\X64\Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Ad… 7.0.14.161095
Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server ARP\Machine\X64\{0E0F96AC-80DE-4400-A40C-429D… 17.10.6.1
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 LocalDB ARP\Machine\X64\{36E492B8-CB83-4DA5-A5D2-D99A… 15.0.4153.1
Windows Subsystem for Linux Update ARP\Machine\X64\{36EF257E-21D5-44F7-8451-0792… 5.10.16
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2019 Microsoft.CLRTypesSQLServer.2019 15.0.2000.5 winget
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer ARP\Machine\X64\{6F320B93-EE3C-4826-85E0-ADF7… 3.11.2177.7163
Microsoft Azure Libraries for .NET – v2.9 ARP\Machine\X64\{7D1D9444-B5EA-4587-A81D-4737… 3.0.2404.2502
IIS 10.0 Express ARP\Machine\X64\{A43F6F96-4CED-4152-8086-AF95… 10.0.08608
Microsoft Azure CLI (64-bit) Microsoft.AzureCLI 2.63.0 winget
Microsoft Update Health Tools ARP\Machine\X64\{C6FD611E-7EFE-488C-A0E0-974C… 5.72.0.0
Microsoft .NET SDK 8.0.400 (x64) from Visual … ARP\Machine\X64\{D77DA550-2511-4108-8019-D02D… 8.4.24.37502
Microsoft Edge Microsoft.Edge 127.0.2651.105 winget
Microsoft Edge Update ARP\Machine\X86\Microsoft Edge Update 1.3.195.15
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime 127.0.2651.105 winget
Visual Studio Community 2022 Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community 17.11.0 winget
vs_CoreEditorFonts ARP\Machine\X86\{1851460E-0E63-4117-B5BA-25A2… 17.7.40001
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributabl… Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x86 14.40.33810.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributabl… Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 14.40.33810.0 winget
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit Microsoft.WindowsADK 10.1.26100.1 winget
Windows Software Development Kit - Windows 10… ARP\Machine\X86\{71684ad3-afc2-4a65-9d45-92ef… 10.1.22621.3233
Windows SDK AddOn ARP\Machine\X86\{F1E37C98-16B7-421F-BA33-6C5B… 10.1.0.0
Python Launcher Python.Launcher > 3.12.0 winget
Microsoft OneDrive Microsoft.OneDrive 24.156.0804.0002 winget
SWIG SWIG.SWIG 4.2.1 winget
Python 3.12.5 (64-bit) Python.Python.3.12 3.12.5 winget
Vulkan SDK 1.3.261.1 KhronosGroup.VulkanSDK 1.3.261.1 winget
Ubuntu on Windows MSIX\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_20… 2004.2022.1.0
Clipchamp MSIX\Clipchamp.Clipchamp_2.2.8.0_neutral__yxz… 2.2.8.0
Cortana MSIX\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2204.14815.0_x… 3.2204.14815.0
App Installer Microsoft.AppInstaller 1.23.1911.0 winget
Xbox MSIX\Microsoft.GamingApp_2105.900.24.0_x64__8… 2105.900.24.0
Get Help MSIX\Microsoft.GetHelp_10.2403.20861.0_x64__8… 10.2403.20861.0
Microsoft Tips MSIX\Microsoft.Getstarted_10.2312.1.0_x64__8w… 10.2312.1.0
HEIF Image Extensions MSIX\Microsoft.HEIFImageExtension_1.1.861.0_x… 1.1.861.0
HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer MSIX\Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_2.1.1803.0_… 2.1.1803.0
Microsoft Edge MSIX\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_127.0.265… 127.0.2651.98
Microsoft Sticky Notes MSIX\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_4.0.422.0… 4.0.422.0
Microsoft .Net Native Framework Package 2.2 MSIX\Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2_2.2.2… 2.2.29512.0
Microsoft .Net Native Framework Package 2.2 MSIX\Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework.2.2_2.2.2… 2.2.29512.0
Microsoft .Net Native Runtime Package 2.2 MSIX\Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.2.2_2.2.286… 2.2.28604.0
Microsoft .Net Native Runtime Package 2.2 MSIX\Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.2.2_2.2.286… 2.2.28604.0
Paint MSIX\Microsoft.Paint_11.2404.1020.0_x64__8wek… 11.2404.1020.0
Power Automate MSIX\Microsoft.PowerAutomateDesktop_1.0.219.0… 1.0.219.0
Raw Image Extension MSIX\Microsoft.RawImageExtension_2.3.2051.0_x… 2.3.2051.0
Snipping Tool MSIX\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2201.12.0_x64_… 11.2201.12.0
Windows Security MSIX\Microsoft.SecHealthUI_1000.25992.9000.0_… 1000.25992.9000.0
Store Experience Host MSIX\Microsoft.StorePurchaseApp_22406.1401.1.… 22406.1401.1.0
Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.4 MSIX\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.4_2.42007.9001.0_x64… 2.42007.9001.0
Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7 Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7 7.2208.15002.0 winget
Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7 Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7 7.2208.15002.0 winget
Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 8.2310.30001.0 winget
Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 8.2310.30001.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime… Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.14 14.0.33728.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime… Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.14 14.0.33728.0 winget
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Runtime Package MSIX\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.33519.0_x64… 14.0.33519.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Runtime Package MSIX\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.33519.0_x86… 14.0.33519.0
VP9 Video Extensions MSIX\Microsoft.VP9VideoExtensions_1.1.451.0_x… 1.1.451.0
Web Media Extensions MSIX\Microsoft.WebMediaExtensions_1.1.1295.0_… 1.1.1295.0
Webp Image Extensions MSIX\Microsoft.WebpImageExtension_1.1.1711.0_… 1.1.1711.0
Microsoft Photos MSIX\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_21.21030.25003.… 21.21030.25003.0
Windows Clock MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsAlarms_1.0.75.0_x64__8w… 1.0.75.0
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4_4000.130… 4000.1309.2056.0
WindowsAppRuntime.1.4 MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.4_4000.130… 4000.1309.2056.0
Windows Calculator MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_11.2405.2.0_… 11.2405.2.0
Windows Camera MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2022.2201.4.0_x6… 2022.2201.4.0
Feedback Hub MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub_1.2405.2148… 1.2405.21481.0
Windows Notepad MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_11.2405.13.0_x6… 11.2405.13.0
Windows Voice Recorder MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_1.0.42.0_… 1.0.42.0
Microsoft Store MSIX\Microsoft.WindowsStore_22406.1401.7.0_x6… 22406.1401.7.0
Windows Terminal Microsoft.WindowsTerminal 1.20.11781.0 winget
Windows Package Manager Source (winget) V2 MSIX\Microsoft.Winget.Source_2024.817.130.49_… 2024.817.130.49
Xbox TCUI MSIX\Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI_1.23.28004.0_x64__8w… 1.23.28004.0
Xbox Game Bar Plugin MSIX\Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay_1.47.2385.0_x6… 1.47.2385.0
Game Bar MSIX\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_7.124.5142.0… 7.124.5142.0
Xbox Identity Provider MSIX\Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider_12.50.600… 12.50.6001.0
Xbox Game Speech Window MSIX\Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay_1.17.2… 1.17.29001.0
Quick Assist MSIX\MicrosoftCorporationII.QuickAssist_2.0.5… 2.0.5.0
Windows Web Experience Pack MSIX\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_52… 524.18500.10.0
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the SWIG.SWIG package entry in the winget-pkgs repository and reproduce the failure using winget install -e SWIG.SWIG, swig -swiglib, and the CMake find_package(SWIG REQUIRED) case. Compare the executable exposed through WinGet\Links with the package contents under WinGet\Packages; done means -swiglib points to an existing directory and both direct SWIG use and CMake configuration succeed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake
- Domain
- build-system, cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100