Hello all, This is probably a silly question, but is it possible to use autobuild with VS2005 ? What used to work very well for me with VS2005+develop.py now fails miserably on VCExpress2010+autobuild. Does this question even make sense ? Or am I condemned to switch to VS2010 that I really disliked ?
Here is what I have spent my Sunday on : - Tried to run autobuild as "autobuild build -c Release", only to get an error saying that it does not find VS2010 (of course, it is not installed). I also had to tell it to not download all the proprietary libraries. - Replaced all occurrences of "Visual Studio 10" in autobuild.xml by "Visual Studio 8 2005" and ran autobuild again, it worked. - Built the solution under VS2005, and it failed miserably because it wanted some Microsoft library v1.45 that my system had only v1.30 of (I don't remember the full name right now but I remember that putting v1.30 would result in a ton of unresolved externals). The build itself took 15 minutes as it always does. - Tried to find these libraries everywhere and failed. - Downloaded VSExpress 2010, knowing very well that its use is limited in time. - Downloaded the source code again - Ran autobuild, failed (no generator named "Visual Studio 10") - Upgraded the whole libraries and tools according to the wiki because I didn't notice that no, Cmake 2.6 was definitely not acknowledging VS2010. Cmake 2.8 was the right tool to use instead. - Ran autobuild, and it worked when using "autobuild build -c VCExpressRelWithDebInfo" (that's from memory). - Built the solution under VS2010... it took an hour before telling me that it couldn't find a "specified file" that it never bothered to tell me the name of. - Gave up and went to bed. I just remember now that secondlife-bin.exe had been generated, but I didn't think of trying it. Maybe the error can be ignored, I don't know. For me, VCExpress2010 is slower, bigger, limited in time and in features, and in any case is not suitable to do a task that VS2005 had no problem doing. All it managed to do so far was to waste my time. Now of course, VS2010 might be more powerful, and I am not arguing against it, it is just that for now I can't go anywhere with it anyway. Could a good soul show me how to make autobuild work with VS2005 please ? Thank you, Marine _______________________________________________ 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
