On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:02:10PM -0000, Dave Stevenson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably going to regret this - I'm not sure that I'll be able to do this > without a lot of pain (nothing to do with FS - more my lack of ability with > Visual Studio), but......, I want to try building FreeSwitch from source > rather than using the pre-built binaries. I have a couple of initial > questions that, hopefully, someone can answer please ? > > 1. I only have Visual Studio 2005 and don't see an upgrade to 2008 on the > horizon for me. > Having downloaded the SVN, I see there is a VS 2005 Solution, but it is > marked as "Unsupported", although the Wiki says that you only need VC++2005. > What does "unsupported" mean in this context ? I guess that support for > VS2005 is being dropped, but is the VS2005 Solution still being maintained, > and if so, for how long? I'd hate to get into the build thing and then find > that I was stalled when VS2005 support was dropped altogether ?
Install VS 2008 if at all possible (express edition is free). 2005 support isn't maintained much if at all, so a lot of newer modules stand a good chance of not having support. > > 2. The whole SVN thing is new to me but I've worked out that I need an SVN > Client on Windows to work with the source. Can anyone recommend the best > (free) SVN Client for Windows to use with FreeSwitch. I have installed > TortoiseSVN - a Windows Explorer Shell that looks pretty and seemed to work > on my first build but it's not command line based so some of the tips given > in the Wiki like "make current" and "make sounds" may be more awkward to > achieve. Is anyone else using Tortoise and/or can give some tips on which SVN > client to use ? > Tortoise SVN is fine and is probably the de-facto client for windows. > 3. I built 15979 last night (with VS2005) and got some warnings, with data > type conversion - is this a known issue under Windows ? > > 4. There was one fatal error in the build of mod_opal (missing file) > (Some examples of the warnings and the error are shown below :-) > Try with VS 2008 and see if they go away. > 5. How do I specify which options (e.g., mod_flite, to be included iin the > build. > You can enable the different sub projects somehow in the UI, I always forget exactly how but just click around in VS and you'll find it. > 6. How do I build the sounds etc. ? > The sounds are a subproject too IIRC. Andrew _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
