msys with mingw turned out to be the easiest way for us.
On 07/23/2011 02:56 AM, Stapleton, Steven J.S. (James) wrote:
Rests us the MicroSoft Visual Studio `Express' way. Has anyone tried it? I
know `bsdbuild' can create project files but the last time i tried it molested
my makefile!! thus running `make proj' can only be done once... and it relies
on some tool that seems to be passed a wrong environment....
I've used the Visual Studios express method, it compiles "fine". In 2010 I
believe it had to migrate the project to the current version, but that went ok. It's a
pain getting/compiling all of the required libraries, but it can be done.
By "fine", I mean it compiles all of the DLLs, however by using Microsofts
tools, I cannot find many exported functions to dynamically link to, and if I try to open
the dll with MS's equivalent of dlsym/dlopen, I get errors.
I found this *much* more trivial than Cygwin/MinGW
Rests us with the problems with freetype and sdl.... Would it be feasable to
distribute a completely instalable Agar+Freetype+SDL+pthread ? that only needs
to be extracted at the right place in MingW or cygwin? ;) That would help a
lot! Even IF you want to develop/recompile Agar the others are then at least
in the right place and installed correctly for Agar to find!
I believe most of these can be downloaded for windows in binary form fairly
trivially. It is possible that the pthread lib needs to be compiled, but that
was the easiest of all, in my experience - no dependant libs.
-Jim Stapleton
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