[opensource-dev] autobuild with VS2005

[Ima Mechanique]

> Thank you all for the pointers.
> 
> So if I get this right, VS2005 is to be left behind... not really kind
> to people who are used to it, and who find 2010 to be an unbearable
> bloatware that runs 4x slower than the old IDE. Not mentioning that
> with 2005, at least I could do something else while compiling. With
> this one, I can do something else... as long as it's away from my
> computer.

Not so much that 2005 is being left behind, but that LL is moving
forward. They cannot stay with the same environment when the Operating
Systems are moving forward; for many reasons.
How fast VC10 runs depends a LOT on your system and configuration. When
I first used autobuild with it, it took the same time to build the
viewer as 2005 had (approximately) However this turned out to be because
I was not using some of the optimisations possible that 2005 had been
using. With these enabled, it is now 35 minutes faster than 2005.  Yes,
it is a resource hog, but that's how it gets to be faster, you can
change default values to prevent that if you want to, I make a cup of
coffee and do something else ;-) Also, autobuild is designed to use the
command line, not the IDE which is a great part of the resource eating.
Intellisense is a pain in the ... RAM, disc I/O, etc. for example.

As has been said already, autobuild started on the 2005 build, if you
want to continue using it you will need to collect all the 2005 build
versions of the libraries and create a configuration file that uses them
instead of the default one which uses 2010 builds.

If you are using the Express version of 2005 you will probably have to
do more to get it to work. The initial version of autobuild was not
express friendly. This is caused by many differences in how the
full/express versions work.

Start with the repo at https://bitbucket.org/oz_linden/viewer-autobuild/

That is the one started for 2005 builds, so should contain some if not
all the library links  I have no idea if those files are still available
from the amazon servers though.Be aware it is considerably out of date
with the main code base now, so you will have to import from
viewer-development, being careful not to over write the autobuild.xml,
best to rename it.

> And if I also get this right, "VCexpressRelWithDebInfo" is the only
> configuration that I should use, isn't it ? I am told to always use
> the "OpenSource" ones, except if I am on Windows (which is the case).
> Doesn't matter, I'll try both.

IIRC the OpenSource* configurations are for full versions of VC only.
They may work with a full version of 2005.
VCexpressRelWithDebInfo is for VC10 Express versions. It uses commands
not available on 2005, so probably will not work at all for you.

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