I have an application that I turned into a simple Native Client App a year ago, and I've been trying to get it running again. However, when I try to run it, or any of the example VS projects, the web server fails to start, giving me usage hints for httpd.py, and saying "httpd.py: error: unrecognized arguments: 5103".
I wasn't able to find anything about this on the NaCL guide or on the net. I could probably troubleshoot the issue if I could see the script that starts the webserver, but I have no idea where this is stored.
The script that start the server is 'nacl_sdk\pepper_43\tools\httpd.py'. The problem is with the port argument being formated incorrectly.
The expected format is:
httpd.py [-h] [-C SERVE_DIR] [-p PORT] [--no-dir-check]
But, the received arguments formatted by the add-in is:
['--no_dir_check', '5103']
where the port prefix is missing and should be '-p 5103'
For a quick fix, add the following line
parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER)
before the parse_args(args) in the main(args) method in httpd.py.
This will keep the unknown arguments from being parsed and will use the default value for port instead (5103).