[sldev] Re: Improving build instructions (Re: cmake: "could not create named generator"...)

[Rob Lanphier]

On 10/28/08 10:34 AM, Lear Cale wrote:
> The problem is on https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Get_source_and_compile,
> which starts out with the cmake cross-platform building page.
>  
> What we need is a preamble to that, with platform-specific
> requirements.  Fortunately,
> most are covered (though a bit out of date) in the section that
> follows -- the deprecated
> stuff you're recommending we get rid of, "Old (pre-CMake) Build
> Instructions".
> We need to collect the stuff from there that still applies and move it
> above the
> cmake page.

Agreed.  I've started this:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Rob_Linden/Get_source_and_compile

Even though it's in my user space, feel free to edit brutally.  The idea
is to make this version the new "Get source and compile" page after some
radical fixups.

> Big thanks to Jordiah Jensen and Michelle2 Zenovka, whose pages have
> pretty much
> all the necessary steps -- but unfortunately end with the same
> problem, presumably
> "BOOST hell".  Allegedly this is caused by VC++ V9; I'm tempted to
> back-rev to
> 2005.
>
> BTW, previously the Quicktime SDK was not required, but now it is. 
> Perhaps that's
> unintentional and could be fixed in develop.py or whatever other files
> it uses.

Quicktime SDK should be optional.  If it's required, it's a bug, and
should be filed as such (under "VWR" with component: "Source code")

Thanks for struggling through!  Hopefully, we can use your input to make
the process smoother.

Rob