User:Nicky Perian/Visual Studio 10 Autobuild

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Establish your programming environment

This is needed for compiling any viewer based on the LL open source code, but only needs to be done once.

  • Obtain Visual Studio 2010 (Express is OK)

Click here to download Visual C++ Express - current version is VS2010

  • Install Microsoft Platform & DirectX SDKs

Download and install Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (ISO) or Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Web Install) and Download and install DirectX SDK (June 2010)

  • Install other development tools

UniCode NSIS(download Unicode NSIS) This is the package installer used to build Setup.exe.  Note: As of this writing the file is downloaded with an *.exec extension that needs renamed *.exe.

should be version 2.8.1  Kitware corrected a bug related to VS2010 at 2.8.1 and it came back in the current versions but, is due to be fixed in version 2.8.4. (and ensure any other versions aren't in your PATH environment variables)

When you run the cygwin setup utility make sure you have selected to install patchutils, flex, and bison (all located under "devel") which are not part of the default install. Do not install Cygwin Python.

You need to use an editor that conforms to the Coding Standard. In particular, you must not check in files with DOS line endings except in very limited circumstances; see How to avoid DOS line endings in Windows tools.

Note: If the installer for a particular package does not update your PATH environment setting you will have to do this manually.


Working with Visual Studio 10 (VS2010)

There are internal setup difference between VS2010 and earlier versions. This write up will not address specific differences. However, differences may be expanded / clarified in the discussion page. The intent this wiki is to guide a new or a new to windows developer to a successful viewer build.

Visual Studio 10 build customization directories for Executable, Include and Library files are set in the Property Sheet xml file:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user.props This property sheet is included in each project within a given solutions.sln file. The customization of this file follows into all solutions. If you are using Visual Studio 10 for more than Second Life viewer builds then you should investigate other directory setting methods. The following links have background for this and additional directory setting methods: Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items How to: Create Directories for Solutions VC++ Directories

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