User:Jodiah Jensen

HOW I COMPILED SL SOURCE w/ VC++ 2008 Express Edition

CAVEAT: although I was able to successfully build the source using these steps, it hangs after loading the settings

ASSUMPTIONS:

Source version 1.21-r99587

Windows 32bit OS

REQUIREMENTS

Cygwin (make sure that patchutils, flex and bison (all under "devel") are installed) http://www.cygwin.com/

Python (the cmake scripts specifically EXCLUDE the cygwin version of the Python interpreter, in the FindPython.cmake script, see step 3 below)

Get Python here: http://www.python.org/download/

PREREQUISITES:

SETUP CMAKE:

Download CMAKE 2.4.8 from http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.8-win32-x86.exe

Install CMAKE

Make sure both CMake and Python are in the windows PATH environment variable

STEP 1

DOWNLOAD SOURCE: http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2008/10/slviewer-src-viewer_1-21-r99587.zip

DOWNLOAD LIBS http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2008/10/slviewer-win32-libs-viewer_1-21-r99587.zip

DOWNLOAD ARTWORK http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2008/10/slviewer-artwork-viewer_1-21-r99587.zip

STEP 2

EXTRACT ALL THREE ZIP FILES TO SAME PATH (no spaces in the path name) ie "D:\SL_SRC\"

this will result in a single folder inside D:\SL_SRC\ called "linden" ("D:\SL_SRC\linden")

TODO: insert directory tree here

STEP 3

RUN develop.py SCRIPT

run a command prompt in the "D:\SL_SRC\linden\indra" path

run the script using "develop.py -G VC90"

NOTE: to get the develop.py script to find the python interpreter when using Python 2.6, I needed to modify the D:\SL_SRC\linden\indra\cmake\Python.cmake file (to include the python path (C:\\Python26\\ on my system) when looking for the python executable) as follows:

 find_program(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE
   NAMES python25.exe python23.exe python.exe
   NO_DEFAULT_PATH # added so that cmake does not find cygwin python
   PATHS
   C:\\Python26\\
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.5\\InstallPath]
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.4\\InstallPath]
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.3\\InstallPath]
   )

OUTPUT from develop.py:

   ...
   ...
   -- Version of viewer is 1.21.6.0
   -- Configuring done
   -- Generating done
   -- Build files have been written to: D:/SL_SRC/linden/indra/build-VC90
   Running 'tools\\vstool\\VSTool.exe --solution build-VC90\\SecondLife.sln --config RelWithDebInfo --startup secondlife-bin' in 'D:\\SL_SRC\\linden\\indra'
   Editing solution: build-VC90\SecondLife.sln
   Looking for existing VisualStudio instance...
     Didn't find open solution, starting new background VisualStudio instance...
     Reading .sln file version...
     Using version: VC90...
   Value cannot be null.
   Parameter name: type
   Quitting do to error opening: D:\SL_SRC\linden\indra\build-VC90\SecondLife.sln

NOTE: this appears to be a problem with using VStools with the express version of VC++, I had to manually set the Startup Project, Build Type, and Working directory (see step 5)

STEP 4

place FMOD files in proper places

Copy "fmodapi375win\api\inc\fmod.h" to "linden\libraries\include"

Copy "fmodapi375win\api\inc\fmod_errors.h" to "linden\libraries\include"

Copy "fmodapi375win\api\lib\fmodvc.lib" to "linden\libraries\i686-win32\lib\release" and to "linden\libraries\i686-win32\lib\debug"

Copy "fmodapi375win\api\fmod.dll" to "linden\indra\newview"

STEP 5

OPEN D:\SL_SRC\linden\indra\build-VC90\secondlife.sln in VC++

set 'secondlife-bin' as Startup Project

set the working directory to 'D:\SL_SRC\indra\newview'

select build type 'RelWithDebInfo'

Remove the llkdu.dll.rule entries (three of them) from the copy_win_libs project CMake Rules folder (per the notes from Cristopher Omega at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:CMake#CMake_and_Visual_Studio_C.2B.2B_2005_Express_Edition

click the green arrow (start debugging)

Build was successful, but the executable doesn't run properly, it hangs , looping through code in the XTREE source file. I suspect this is due to problems with the BOOST libraries and using the 2008 version of VC++ (see Michelle Zenovka's page https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Michelle2_Zenovka/cmake#boost_hell ).

I am working on compiling boost 1.36 with VC++2008 EXPRESS to use with the 1.21.6 source code.

REFERENCES

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/CMake

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:CMake

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Michelle2_Zenovka/cmake