[sldev] Making symbol browsing work across projects in VS

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On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com> wrote:
> After doing some more testing, I see that right-clicking on a
> definition like "F32" only works within "llcommon.vcproj", but does
> not work in other projects such as "newview.vcproj".
>
> If it's supposed to "just work" then I probably don't have VS2003 set
> up correctly, and something needs to be done to make VS2003 load all
> these projects simultaneously or tell it to look across all the
> various project files to find source definitions across all of them.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Fresh reinstall of VS2003 on Windows XP:
>
> 1. Create working directory "C:\SL_Viewer_Builds\1_20_12_RC"
> 2. 7-Zip: Unzip "slviewer-src-Branch_1-20-Viewer-2-r90824.zip" to here
> 3. 7-Zip: Unzip "slviewer-artwork-Branch_1-20-Viewer-2-r90824.zip" to here
> 4. 7-Zip: Unzip "slviewer-win32-libs-Branch_1-20-Viewer-2-r90824.zip" to here
> 5. Copy the additional 3rd party libs into here (Fmod, Qucktime)
> 6. Open VS2003, open project "\linden\indra\newview\newview.vcproj"
>
> Solution "Newview" -> expand "Source Files" -> open "llagent.cpp" at
> top as random test subject
>
> In section:
> // Mousewheel camera zoom
> const F32 MIN_ZOOM_FRACTION = 0.25f;
> const F32 INITIAL_ZOOM_FRACTION = 1.f;
>
> Right-click on "F32", select "Go to Definition"
> *** ERROR: Microsoft Development Environment / The symbol 'F32' is not defined.
>
> Right-click on "F32", select "Go to Declaration"
> *** ERROR: Microsoft Development Environment / The symbol 'F32' is not defined.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> In project "linden\indra\llcommon\llcommon.vcproj", if I right-click
> on "F32" in "llapp.cpp", and select "go to definition" or "go to
> declaration", it does open stdtypes.h and jump to the referenced line.
>
> Having llcommon.vcproj open in another window has no effect on the
> newview project. It still says "not defined" if I right-click on F32
> in llagent.cpp in newview.vcproj.
>
>
> - Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Dante Tucker <danteferret at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hmm.... Usualy i just right click on it, and it gives you options like that,
>> to follow it through to where it was declared etc.
>>
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