[sldev] Progress report on VS 2005 Compile

[John Hurliman]

Tleiades wrote:
> Hi
>  
> Yesterday I had some significant progress on getting the viewer to 
> compile on VS 2005. Unfortunately I had to leave early, because of the 
> weekend.
>  
> I report here, so others may continue from where I left it.
>  
> You will need to have both VS 2003 and VS 2005 installed
>  
> I recompiled mozilla using VS 2003, i.e. make sure that the VCVARS.BAT 
> executed is the 2003 version.
>  
> I got the llmozlib project from the uBrowser website, and compiled it 
> using VS 2005.
>  
> I copied the resulting llmozlib.lib in to the libraries part of indira.
>  
> Compiled the viewer using VS2005, warning: There is a mismatch between 
> the setbackgroundColor method in llMozLib.h, between the version 
> comming of the uBrowser and the version in Indira (bool vs. void 
> return, const int vs. int parameters)
>  
> Having fixed this, I got a clean compile and link. and managed to run 
> the new SecondLife.exe. There were no crashes, but I never got a login 
> prompt either :-(
>  
> I will continue my work on a VS 2005 compile when I get back from the 
> weekend, but in the mean time, others might want to fiddle around as well.
>  
>

Nice work on getting closer with LIBXUL integration! You only need VS 
2003 to build the Mozilla portion correct? Could you post the .lib file 
you built and the patched header(s) somewhere?


John Hurliman