Install fails to download Xerces 3.1.4

[Phrogz]

On a fresh clone, running cmake .. && make fails:

Scanning dependencies of target xerces-c
[  5%] Creating directories for 'xerces-c'
[  5%] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'xerces-c'
-- Downloading...
   dst='/home/gkistner/uscxml/build/deps/xerces-c/src/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
   timeout='none'
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
-- Retrying...
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
-- Retry after 5 seconds (attempt #2) ...
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
-- Retry after 5 seconds (attempt #3) ...
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
-- Retry after 15 seconds (attempt #4) ...
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
-- Retry after 60 seconds (attempt #5) ...
-- Using src='http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz'
CMake Error at xerces-c-stamp/download-xerces-c.cmake:157 (message):
  Each download failed!

    error: downloading 'http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz' failed
         status_code: 22
         status_string: "HTTP response code said error"
         log:
         --- LOG BEGIN ---
           Trying 40.79.78.1...

  TCP_NODELAY set

  Connected to www.apache.org (40.79.78.1) port 80 (#0)

  GET /dist/xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.1.4.tar.gz HTTP/1.1

  Host: www.apache.org

  User-Agent: curl/7.56.0

  Accept: */*

  

  The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

  Closing connection 0

  

         --- LOG END ---

[Phrogz]

FWIW, downloading and installing Xerces 3.2.2 manually also fails. However, downloading 3.1.4 from the archive and installing that allowed the uSCXML install to proceed past this point.

[sradomski]

Hey Gavin,

yes, I am aware of the xercesc issue - they removed the archive from their HTTP repository. I just could not find the time yet to update the build scripts as my current job took me elsewhere. I'll gather a few issues and see when/if I find some time to update uSCXML.

[anders-lundgren]

Hi @Phrogz , trying to install on Windows and getting the same issue. How did you install Xerces?

[daemacles]

I managed to get it working with the following (hacked) modified contrib/cmake/BuildXercesC.cmake file. The changes are for build on MSVC 17.x with Win10 SDK 10.0.17134.0, which is just what happens to be installed on my machine.

BuildXercesC.cmake.txt

[enjoysmath]

On Raspberry Pi at least the command is:

sudo apt-get install libxerces-c3.2

Do not get your hopes up though. You're going to run into more / new errors after this.