Hey everyone, I've spent way to much of my time recently trying to fix up the builds initally for 2005 Express, but that very rapidly became tangled with needing to fix the build process to be aware of which compiler version it was using so this naturally led to 2008 support being addded. I really would like to get some input from Brad on this as this is one of his areas. But also testing from express and 2005/2008 compilers would be helpful
The revelant JIRAs are VWR-20879 - FTBFS: find_vc_dir() fails with Visual Studio Express SNOW-788 - Fix cmake files to correctly include boost on VC2008 windows builds VWR-20914 - Allow the MS CRT dlls and manifest location to be manually specified to work around VC Express limitations VWR-20915 - Remove hardcoding of VC80/8.0 from cmake and python files VWR-20921 - mt.exe is not found when building with visual studio 2008 You can find the complete patch bundle applied to viewer-development at http://bitbucket.org/robincornelius/viewer-development-vwr-20879 Additional instructions are on the wiki page - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Robin_Cornelius/viewer-development_VC2005_Express , these instructions work around fundimental limitations of Express and the fixes i have documented would then apply to any viewer branch in future so they can be considered system wide fixes. I do not believe these workarounds should be corrected in the viewer code, it is not something the viewer is doing wrong. If you decide to try to build 2008, please note that express users still need the winres.h fix from the above wiki link and also you need to copy the precompiled boost libs detailed at the end of http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-9541. My test environments have completed builds to an installer sucessfully with 2005 and 2008 Express. There is one final issue if you use 2008 express which i believe at this time is out side the scope of viewer fixes. The LL supplied prebuild libs are build against VC80 CRT v 4053, if you build with 2008 you will have dependencies on both the VC80 4053 CRT and your current VC90 CRT. So the installer if distributed to a 3rd party may fail to run as it will not copy the VC80 CRT to the installer. If and when LL decide to update to 2008 internally this should all just fall in to place without changes. Thanks _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
