I've been able to build successfully with VS Tools.
Awaiting further instructions to get started.
Mario.
2017-06-19 16:43 GMT+02:00 Daniel Roßberg <danielmrossb...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Mario,
>
> I'm not aware of a successful BRL-CAD build with MinGW. All attempts
> I know about got stuck during the CMake configuration, as you did.
> What you could do is
> - Use MS Visual Studio
> - Use Linux in a virtual machine (there is an image among the BRL-CAD
> downloads)
> - Fix BRL-CAD's CMake files (not recommended if you aren't fit in writing
> them)
>
> Therefore, I'm afraid the answer is negative.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> 2017-06-19 12:50 GMT+02:00 Mario Meissner <mr.rash....@gmail.com>:
> > Hello everyone.
> > I'm Mario Meissner, I have been elected to work for BRLCAD during the
> > summer, in case SOCIS happens. Apparently, they are having administrative
> > issues and the start of the coding period has been delayed. Anyway I
> decided
> > to at least set myself up and start on my own.
> > I'm trying to set up a Windows working environment, building with the
> MinGW
> > compiler tools and CMake with Eclipse as a target since it's the IDE I
> have
> > currently installed.
> >
> > Steps I performed:
> >
> > svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk
> > brlcad-svn-trunk
> >
> > Open cmake gui
> >
> > configure... eclipse cdt4 mingw makefiles, use default native compilers
> >
> > This is how it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/CMNnICz.png
> >
> > a long test script runs, and errors occur at the end.
> >
> > In particular, the errors that seem to break the configuration process
> are
> > the following:
> >
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2738 (file):
> > file failed to open for reading (No such file or directory):
> >
> > C:/Users/Mario/Desktop/brlcad/bin/CMakeTmp/BRLCAD_BUILD_HOST
> >
> >
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2739 (string):
> > string sub-command STRIP requires two arguments.
> >
> >
> > I can confirm that there are several files inside cmaketmp, including
> > BRLCAD_BUILD_COUNT and BRLCAD_BUILD_USER.
> >
> > However, no BRLCAD_BUILD_HOST file.
> >
> > The second error is probably related to the first one. Here is the line
> that
> > fails inside cmakelists:
> >
> >
> > file(READ "${BRLCAD_HOSTNAME_FILE}" BRLCAD_COMPILE_HOST)
> > string(STRIP ${BRLCAD_COMPILE_HOST} BRLCAD_COMPILE_HOST)
> > DISTCLEAN("${BRLCAD_HOSTNAME_FILE}")
> >
> >
> > It's surely failing because of the previous error where the file was not
> > found.
> >
> > Here are the trace files it generated, in case you need extra
> information.
> > https://transfer.sh/O32GJ/CMakeOutput.log
> > https://transfer.sh/27Qo8/CMakeError.log
> > http://i.imgur.com/6ZRiFyu.png
> >
> > Thank you in advance for helping me out,
> > and I apologize for my incompetence.
> > Mario.
> >
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