Compiling 3.1 with visual studio

[Emdek]

vexed, yeah, I've read earlier about that their stupid change for new Visual Studio... They don't shoot on their foot but in face this time.

About real frontend using Qt (current attempt was doomed from start, that's bad that it happened when I was away...), I could try to do that, using QML, but since it most probably wouldn't be used then it doesn't make sense to invest in it. Especially since it would only make sense to start with QML2 (Qt5) which would require OpenGL ES 2 for GUI part... But since we are apparently going to support only that version anyway... There could be always legacy version, network compatible with upstream, if someone would like to support older hardware (for example OpenArena has one, with even smaller manpower...).

[Lord Apocalypse]

Got everything up except the following...

Code: Select all

Error	1	error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'strres_lexer.cpp': No such file or directory	E:\SCM\Warzone 2100 git\lib\framework\c1xx	framework
Error	2	error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'chat_lexer.cpp': No such file or directory	E:\SCM\Warzone 2100 git\lib\script\c1xx	script
Error	3	error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'script_lexer.cpp': No such file or directory	E:\SCM\Warzone 2100 git\lib\script\c1xx	script
Error	4	error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'audp_lexer.cpp': No such file or directory	E:\SCM\Warzone 2100 git\lib\gamelib\c1xx	gamelib

There aren't in the repo that I can tell...

[Emdek]

Probably you simply need to remove them form project file, maybe that will be enough.

[cybersphinx]

They're autogenerated by lex/flex and yacc/bison, no clue how that works on Windows. Should be in the source archives as well, iirc.

[Lord Apocalypse]

searched both hard drives and nothing so far (its almost done). Will see about taking them out and go from there I guess.

[Reg312]

searched both hard drives and nothing so far (its almost done). Will see about taking them out and go from there I guess.

you need correct install flex/bison, write paths + write in OS "path" variable...
when you rebuild first time that files will be generated automatically
you should not search that files

[Lord Apocalypse]

have flex, bison, and some other gnu files in E:\Programming\GnuWin32\bin and correct path set or I would be getting flex/bison errors. Not sure what you mean by write paths.

[Reg312]

have flex, bison, and some other gnu files in E:\Programming\GnuWin32\bin and correct path set or I would be getting flex/bison errors. Not sure what you mean by write paths.

did you restarted pc?
try rebuild..
hmm i had same problem but i dont remember what i did to solve it

problem in bison/flex... check all things with that stuff 100 times

[Lord Apocalypse]

I used the binary install of flex and bison. No VC files for source so decided to use what I had installed. Think I need to install source anyway?

[Reg312]

I used the binary install of flex and bison. No VC files for source so decided to use what I had installed. Think I need to install source anyway?

no.. i installed flex/bison same way - from link in compile guide..
i had same propblem but i corrected path enviroment variable and may be something else

[Lord Apocalypse]

Think I may have found something. In the various projects that require Flex I see (name)_lexer.lpp I also see an output file called (name)_lexer.lex.c which is the output of lex as far as I can tell. If I change the name in the flex config from %(Filename).lex.c to %(Filename).cpp do you think it will work? Will try in a few, kids are fighting...

[vexed]

The compiler's build logs should tell you why it failed...you shouldn't have to change anything from that file to make it work.

As for why we are not using cmake / scons / whatever. Simple, nobody has done it.
Dropped pre VS2010 because of the horrible performance with STL, it still isn't that great compared to STLport, it has improved though.

[Lord Apocalypse]

There is a cmake file for mingw thats why I asked. As for STL, never noticed performance problems and I believe Vega Strike uses a lot of the basic STL stuff. Is it the entire STL on windows that sucks or certain parts?

[Lord Apocalypse]

Got it to compile finally but running it gives me a font error...

Code: Select all

error   |12:29:41: [iV_initializeGLC:165] Failed to select font family DejaVu Sans as regular font
error   |12:29:41: [iV_initializeGLC:183] iV_initializeGLC: Failed to select font family DejaVu Sans for the bold font

Any ideas? At least it compiles now though

[Reg312]

Got it to compile finally but running it gives me a font error...

Code: Select all

error   |12:29:41: [iV_initializeGLC:165] Failed to select font family DejaVu Sans as regular font
error   |12:29:41: [iV_initializeGLC:183] iV_initializeGLC: Failed to select font family DejaVu Sans for the bold font

Any ideas? At least it compiles now though

i have same error...
you know. i have wz folder with prepared sources and it works well..
but when i've tried make another folder (dowloaded from git and etc..) then i got error with djvu font
may be there is something wrong with my devpkg