What’s wrong with my build?

Windows CE build is quite a complex process.
It involves different tools to parse makefiles, build and link code, merge resouces, make the OS image etc. and if something fails during the build is not always easy to understand what's wrong.

Platform Builder: makeimg: FATAL ERROR: Out of buffer space

It seems that PB (CE 6 in VS 2005) doesn’t like long path names.

I’ve come across this before.

It builds OK but then fails over in makeimage as above.

C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\LPC3250-DK_BIN  with solution file in this directory worked OK.

C:\WINCE600\3rdparty\PhyCore_LPC3250_BSP_EVAL_V1_0_3_Prerelease\OSDesigns\LPC3250-DK_BIN  fails as above

I seem to remember that spaces can cause problems too.

It seems a path length issue here.

Thanks to Bruce Eitman:

http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2009/06/17/platform-builder-makeimg-fatal-error-out-of-buffer-space.aspx

... And   Nicolas Besson seems to have blogged about the same problem jsut when I came accross it:

http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-image-and-out-of-buffer-space.html

Building an Image

There are plenty of example sand how-to’s on how to build a Windows CE image, download and debug it on a target: Sam’s Jumpstart Kit: <CD>/Vortex86DX_SPARK_WINCE600_JumpStart_Rev2.5.pdf <CD>/SampleCodes/OSDesign/MyWinCE_OSDesign_Project_VDX6326.zip Where the CD is the “Solution of Fault Tolerance x86 System-on-chip” as supplied with the kit   MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Tools   Windows CE 6 Help (Local or at MSDN) Topics: For a CEPC .. A PC as a CE device, but applies to the Spark Kit: How to Set Up a CEPC The major hardware issue is the network card. It doesn’t need a hard drive You need a boot floppy, or create a USB boot floppy(Search for HP disk key) Or you can set up a  bootable hard drive formatte ...