Building Jive for Windows on VC++ Express

[Patros]

Is anyone actively developing jive under Visual C++ express? Doesn't look like the .sln file has been updated in quite some time.

[rtitmuss]

Not actively as far as I know, but I do test Jive compiles ok occasionally. That said I made a change last week that I think will break building on Visual C.

The unix build now automatically generates jive/src/version.h, for example:

/* This file is automatically generated */
#define JIVE_VERSION "1 r486M"

The "1" comes from the jive.version file in the pkg folder, and the "r486M" is the SVN revision number from "svnversion". I am not sure that the equivalent SVN command is for Windows, but we'll need to work that out.

Cheers,
Richard

[Patros]

Yes, the version.h is one error. I'm also getting a link error in lfs on Microsoft.obj (doesn't seem to be in the psdk or directX sdk), an include error in luaprofiler on lua.h and a bunch of errors on the Version.rc files in SDL_image and _ttf.

If there aren't any active windows developers, it probably makes more sense to scrounge up an unbuntu machine to work on.

Thanks,

Pat

[dean]

We do want to keep the Windows version working, so feedback about
what's broken and any patches would be most welcome.

The long-term plan is to replace SoftSqueeze with a Jive-based player/
controller and have that available for all our supported platforms,
including windows.

-dean

On Sep 18, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Patros wrote:

>
> Yes, the version.h is one error. I'm also getting a link error in
> lfs on
> Microsoft.obj (doesn't seem to be in the psdk or directX sdk), an
> include error in luaprofiler on lua.h and a bunch of errors on the
> Version.rc files in SDL_image and _ttf.
>
> If there aren't any active windows developers, it probably makes more
> sense to scrounge up an unbuntu machine to work on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat
>
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[rtitmuss]

Hmm, ok it was working a couple of weeks ago. It would help to have a first volunteer to be an active windows developer .

I have just checked in a work around for the version.h file. Jive now compiles and runs fine for me in Visual Studio 2005. If your still having problems compiling it must be due to VC++ Express.

[kdf]

Hmm, ok it was working a couple of weeks ago. It would help to have a first volunteer to be an active windows developer .

as active as I have been with jive on other oses, all I need is VC and I'd be happy build on windows as well.

-kdf

[Triode]

Debug version just built for me on VC++ Express. I did have problems with the release target before, so suspect the changes earlier on in this thread may be needed.

Edit: Confirmed - release version has probles with luaprofiler, but otherwise builds - so the patch above probably fixes it, but I've not tried.

[Patros]

Yup, all seems to be working now. Thanks

[kdf]

VC Express didn't seem to be able to find ddraw.h, until I added this for the includes:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2007)\Include

After that, failure to find dxdiag.lib, which is solved by adding the following to libraries:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2007)\Lib\x86

this allowed the debug build to work. for a release build, I had to use the profile patch given previously, with one additonal change:

OutputDirectory="$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName )"

is actually:
OutputDirectory="$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName )"

The extra space was causing a undefined variable error. It now reports success, but there is no jive.exe in the release folder. Only the support files.

-kdf