[sldev] [HELP] C++ newbie needs help with first compilation

Maya Remblai snowfox102 at dragonkeepcreations.com
Mon May 25 22:51:17 PDT 2009


Oops sorry, I'm using Visual C++ 2008 Express 9.0.

Also, I fixed the fmod issue, I had forgotten to copy a couple of the 
files to the right places. Still won't compile though, there are some 
other files missing that I haven't heard of. I'll post the exact 
messages tomorrow.

Thanks,
Maya

Gordon Wendt wrote:
> Which version of Visual Studio are you running?  There are some great 
> instructions on the wiki 
> (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Get_source_and_compile) but it'll be 
> a lot easier to point you to a specific set of instructions and it'll 
> save you a lot of time searching around for them.
>
> -Gordon Wendt
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Maya Remblai 
> <snowfox102 at dragonkeepcreations.com 
> <mailto:snowfox102 at dragonkeepcreations.com>> wrote:
>
>     I looked in the archives but didn't see anything helpful there, so
>     here
>     goes: I'd like to learn to tinker with the viewer source a bit,
>     nothing
>     major, just applying patches and such. I've followed the directions on
>     the wiki and all seems fine until the "Building with CMake" step. It
>     says to run a command line, but CMake doesn't have a command line,
>     it's
>     a GUI. Using the DOS prompt doesn't work. Randomly trying things made
>     Visual Studio start compiling, but it spit out some errors, one of
>     which
>     was about a missing source file, fmod.h I believe it was. Can some one
>     direct me to some more detailed instructions? Ones that don't
>     assume the
>     reader is already familiar with these programs?
>
>     Environment:
>     Windows XP Home
>     CMake 2.6.4
>     Latest Cygwin
>     Python 2.5
>     Windows SDK 6.1
>     DirectX SDK 9.24.1400
>     I set up Cygwin, CMake, and Python according to the directions.
>
>     Thanks
>     Maya Remblai
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