Building spring 0.79.1.2 in Eclipse IDE

[greyghost]

Hello! I'm very excited to begin contributing to the Spring Project, both with content and coding for the engine itself. Before I dive into the adventure that appears to be content generation, I'm attempting to build spring 0.79.1.2 from source using:

• Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede) w/ CDT for C/C++
• MinGW 5.1.4
• SCons 1.2.0
• SConsBuilder 0.7.3 plugin for Eclipse

I can tell you that most of my trouble come from my lack of C++ experience in Eclipse, and then my lack of C++ experience in general. Is there a post or link out there that walks through getting all the includes/build paths/etc configured in Eclipse?

I have a lot of errors related to Eclipse not finding the includes properly.

Thanks in advance... I believe I'll be a return customer.

Matt

[Super Mario]

You need to use Cmake in order to configure the source files, see the developments tab for more details.
You also need the latest version of MinGW which is 4.4.0

[greyghost]

Thanks for the point in the right direction.
I got CMake 2.6 installed, and added it as an external tool in Eclipse...
CMake runs and seems to complete fine, and if I build to "spring", it runs to the end and then dies with around 30 or so errors similar to this:

..\mingwlibs\lib\libboost_program_options-mt.a(options_description.o):options_description.cpp:(.text+0x326b): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::__ostream_insert<char, std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*, int)'

I imagine I have left out a reference to something... I have mingwlibs in my spring source directory, and that doesn't appear to be the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[imbaczek]

it looks like you aren't linking in libstdc++ or are linking it in wrong order.

[greyghost]

I've tried several make targets, with no luck. In eclipse, the MinGW include directories are in the project's "Includes" path and they display there in the project explorer.

Is this a CMake issue? Any ideas on what to do next?

Thanks

[Auswaschbar]

You either need a special build of mingw, or need to enable shared-libc. I have not yet figured out how to do this myself.