Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with using MinGW or cygwin? On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:34 PM, hurcan solter <hsol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all; > > I am a windows developer that insanely enjoys crawl, so I wanted to > contribute as much as I am able to. > But having almost no Linux experience and seeing that MSVC doesn't get > enough love, I've decided to > do something about it. > > Crawl has a MSVC port but it doesn't work and sadly it's a dead > weight at the moment .Fearing it will sink > into oblivion like its DOS predecessor (failed joke attempt) ,I've > modified to source code to compile on msvc > and painstakingly ported from GNU build system to Cmake. it's not > perfect.There were many things I > couldn't understand so I've left them out but I am sure there are some > people among you that could fix > it if inclined or instruct me how to do so. > > The changes are not intrusive, the makefile still works as it should > and cmake enables out of source build > so the source is not cluttered with the alternative build system.Some > new files (CMakeLists) added to the > source and to contrib libraries. The source code changes are mostly > errors and warnings caught by the > compiler and others are undefined behaviours I've caught at runtime. > > I've succesfully built and tested the crawl both versions (console and > tiles) on MSYS and MSVC10 > It doesn't currently support APPLE (I have no experience with it at > all) but Linux version can be built > with some minor modifications I believe. > > I'll upload the patches to mantis shortly, there are about 30 of them > so you can cherry-pick the ones, > applicable after reviewing as you wish, if you don't like to apply all > these stuff at once. > > > > Default settings: > > option (TILES "Tiles build" OFF) > option (BUILD_ALL "Build all contrib libraries" OFF) > option (WIZARD "Enable Wizard Mode" ON) > option (ASSERTS "Enable asserts" ON) > option (EUCLIDIAN "If enabled moving diagonally costs more" OFF) > option (FULLDEBUG "Only define if you are building the debug version > of crawl" OFF) > option (NO_LUA_BINDINGS "No Lua Bindings" OFF) > set (PROPORTIONAL_FONT "" CACHE STRING "Proportional Font") > set (MONOSPACED_FONT "" CACHE STRING "MonoSpaced Font") > > example usage for MSYS; > mkdir build > cd build > cmake .. -DTILES=ON -DWIZARD=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release & make > > to install; > make install/local > > for creating a MSVC project; > > mkdir build > cd build > cmake .. -DTILES=ON -DWIZARD=OFF > > open the project in the same directory to build crawl... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list > Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss >
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