On 10/29/10 2:24 PM, "Tom Browder" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I may soon be forced into using BRL-CAD on Windows and I would > appreciate some answers and hints from Windows developers: > > 1. What version of MSVC++ is recommended? We've been using MSVC8 (aka 2005). There was a variant of the build system for MSVC9/2008, but that was not maintained and I think is gone. Starseeker is currently working on redoing the build system using Cmake, which can generate project files for a range of MSVC's. > 2. What version or combination of the BRL-CAD Windows packages will I > need to both run BRL-CAD executables as well as develop and run apps > using the BRL-CAD libraries? I would imagine that you'd be best off ignoring the binaries on sourceforge and building BRL-CAD using the same compiler you intend to build your own projects with. There has been a considerable amount of recent effort to bring the windows port closer to parity with the *nix capabilities and reports of what is broken or needed in the most recent version are always welcome. Tortoise provides a windows subversion interface if you feel brave :) > 3. Any problems with building and using non-gui (i.e., command line > interface) programs that use BRL-CAD libraries? Not all of the programs are built. Ones that require curses support are off the list. Otherwise, just make sure the dll's can be seen, I think? > 4. Any suggestions for getting a better CLI environment on Windows > than the standard command terminal which limits one to about 75 > characters per line? Cygwin has an RXVT port which may be more suitable. It'll fire up bash as the shell and have all the basic *nix tools handy. I don't think BRL-CAD can be built with cygwin (due to tcl weirdness, iirc), but it makes the machine a lot more pleasant to interface with :) > Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The current MSVC8 build system attempts to invoke NSIS (http://nsis.sf.net) with the explicit path of C:\Program Files\NSIS\ iirc. > Regards, > > -Tom > > Thomas M. Browder, Jr. > Niceville, Florida > USA -Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
