[sldev] Help compiling

[Andromeda Quonset]

Thank you Vector, and Celierra!

I am still trying to install the SDK for Windows Server 2008.

Perhaps I'll have more questions in a day or two.  The hour is 
getting late here :)

Andro

At 02:41 AM 9/8/2008, you wrote:
>I hope you've solved your problem.
>
>If not, maybe this will help. I'm not very experiences, so this may sound
>silly. But I too created an unholy mess in my first few days trying to get
>it to compile.
>
>It's very complicated, but the information is there on the wikis, you just
>have to sort through what's not relevant, and that takes some trial and
>error. What I succeeded at was the 1.20 build.
>
>Notice what other's have said about the python script being only for 1.21
>CMake installs. You can ignore for a MSVS2005.
>
>Do the build of the additional libraries you need (fmod, openjpeg, etc.)
>into the separate library tree.
>
>Then zip that up.
>
>Then download all three of the zip files from the source page (check the
>text on them, because sometimes the pointers on the page get messed up and
>it will cause you to download mis-matched packages despite the fact you
>clicked on the right link. If the links aren't there for matched package
>sets, go and update the wiki to simply fix the names. I hope that made
>sense.)
>
>Get Artwork, source, and libs from the source downloads page.
>
>Then unzip to a fresh directory in this order:
>
>1. Your created tree of library add-ons
>2. Linden's artwork
>3. Linden's source
>4. Linden's libs.
>
>Those last three really don't matter what order they're in, it matters that
>they come after 1, because you may find some files get replaced. These will
>cause run-time errors if you don't use the ones from linden's packages.
>
>Once you do that and follow the converting project files wiki page you
>mention, you CAN compile Release 1.20 on MSVS2005 Express.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Vector Hastings
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com
>[mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com]On Behalf Of Andromeda
>Quonset
>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:55 PM
>To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
>Subject: [sldev] Help compiling
>
>
>Greetings!
>
>I do not have VS2003.  I have VS2002, VS2005, VS2008 Express.  The
>one I am _comfortable_ with is VS6.0.
>
>I have been attempting to compile the client.  What I seem to have
>accomplished is created a mess.
>
>I decided to use VS2005 as the best choice among the compilers I
>have.  The client version I chose was 1.19.1
>I am running under Windows XP SP2, 32-bit.
>I have attempted to download all the myriad of files.  I found I
>needed to upgrade VS2005 to SP1.  So, that's done.
>
>At one point, under "Configuring for VS2005"
>http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_%28MSVS2005%29,
>it says "To configure, go into linden\indra and run develop.py -G
>VC80. This will create a build directory named build-VC80. "
>
>I can safely say that there is no "develop.py" in "linden\indra" or
>anywhere else in the system.  Nor can I find out where I might
>download it from.  With that lacking, I've gone to
>http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Converting_project_files_for_MSVS2005
>where I have done the conversion manually.
>
>I have gotten from over 4,000 errors, to where I only have a few
>errors.  Much of that was from the XML code that was pre-pended
>inside of the openGL headers.  At the moment, I am stuck at "Link :
>fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'dinput8.lib'
>
>There are other errors that appear earlier, over 250 of them, but
>since linking gets invoked, I don't know if they matter or not.
>
>One other thing:  the wiki says I need to obtain and install
>something called "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform
>SDK".  This is no longer available.  When you jump through all the
>hoops to download it at the Microsoft site, what happens is you end
>up on a download site for "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and
>.NET Framework 3.5".  I have gone ahead and downloaded this, however,
>since it isn't the version specified, I have not installed it.  I
>don't understand, anyway, why I would need this.  I'm not running a
>Windows "server" OS of any flavor here.
>
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