Note the send date here. This is an old message, coming back from the grave. (Scared me for a minute, though.)
Right? andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Osfield Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:57 AM To: osg users Subject: [osg-users] New build configuration for Windows checked in. Hi All, Over the last week there has been various discussions on the osg-submissions lists about refining the Windows build configuration so that it builds in a way that makes it easier to use without setting paths to plugins or libs. Luigi Calori has very kindly down all the hard work in experimenting with and managing to get CMake to get it to build in this way, and finally the culmination of this work is now checked into SVN. Key differences of the new build configuration are: 1) .lib for all the core libraries are built in OpenSceneGraph/lib 2) .dll's for all the core libraries are built in OpenSceneGarph/bin 3) dll's for all the core libraries are now built with osg-version prefix i.e. osg-version-osgUtil.dll 4) .dll's for all plugins are built in OpenSceneGarph/bin/osgPlugins-version A dry list, but... what it means to you as Window developers is pretty amazing 1) End of DLL hell is in sight - both core library dll's and plugins are versioned so mixing multiple versions of the OSG on one system will now be far far less painful than ever before 2) No need to set paths to find when the dll's or plugins are. 3) The build structure mirrors that what will be installed if you decide to install. 4) Install is now just an optional extra - you no longer need to do it I know I'm a uber geek, who doesn't even use Windows, but it seems mighty wholesome and pleasing to me :-) Now to make use of all this wholesome goodness you'll first need to update to the CMake 2.4.7 version as 2.4.6 isn't capable of doing the above. As its all so new Luigi has made the new build configuration an option, rather than the default build so you'll need to enable it. Finally its very new, and only tested by Luigi so far, so we'll need willing helpers to go test it. Below is a copy and paste from CMakeList.txt with a segment Luigi's added to explain a little about the new feature and how to enable it. Many thanks to Luigi for his efforts, Robert. ######################################################################## ################################ # the foolowing options are MSVC specific, # the first OSG_MSVC_VERSIONED_DLL activate a custom build-time layout that should allow to run examples and application # fron bin folder without requiring installation step. # it also prepend "osg${OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION}-" to only .dll files, leaving .lib files untouched in lib # it also use a hack to get rid of Debug and Release folder in MSVC projects # all the .dll and .pdb are in bin and all the .lib and .exp are in lib _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or g _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
