Compiling engine in Windows

[Dakara]

So I've got round to downloading the source code :), but according to the wiki page https://springrts.com/wiki/Building_Spring_on_Windows there seems to be a number of issues when compiling with visual studio, so..

1) Is the wiki page still accurate in terms of official support for Visual Studio?
2) Is the experimental build of the code with Visual Studio limited to VS2012 (or at least only tested with this version)?
3) What are the platform(s) & compiler(s) used by currently active users?

Thanks for any replies!

[abma]

1) Is the wiki page still accurate in terms of official support for Visual Studio?

IMO yes: https://springrts.com/mediawiki/index.p ... on=history
there were some commits related to MSVC, so it maybe compiles.

2) Is the experimental build of the code with Visual Studio limited to VS2012 (or at least only tested with this version)?

i guess so, yes.

3) What are the platform(s) & compiler(s) used by currently active users?

i guess you mean developers? Mostly linux. The buildslaves currently run on linux, too. IMO debian or ubuntu should work best to compile spring. I'm currently using Debian 8.7 jessie for compiling spring, the automatic tests use ubuntu trusty: https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/d ... travis.yml

[Dakara]

i guess you mean developers? Mostly linux. The buildslaves currently run on linux, too. IMO debian or ubuntu should work best to compile spring. I'm currently using Debian 8.7 jessie for compiling spring, the automatic tests use ubuntu trusty: https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/d ... travis.yml

Yea, just developers :).

In regards to development then, is there a preferred IDE? or is one not used?

[Super Mario]

i guess you mean developers? Mostly linux. The buildslaves currently run on linux, too. IMO debian or ubuntu should work best to compile spring. I'm currently using Debian 8.7 jessie for compiling spring, the automatic tests use ubuntu trusty: https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/d ... travis.yml

Yea, just developers :).

In regards to development then, is there a preferred IDE? or is one not used?

It uses cmake to generate the build/project files.

[FLOZi]

I just successfully built current git head with GCC 4.9.0 and CMake 3.4.1 on Win 7, afaik this setup is still from current wiki.

[Silentwings]

is there a preferred IDE?

Not officially - I prefer codeblocks (with project files generated by cmake).

[hokomoko]

1) Is the wiki page still accurate in terms of official support for Visual Studio?

More or less

2) Is the experimental build of the code with Visual Studio limited to VS2012 (or at least only tested with this version)?

No, MadrMan and I made spring build on VS2015. The main difference is that instead of cloning vclibs11, you clone vclibs14.

Feel free to pm me if you encounter issues.

3) What are the platform(s) & compiler(s) used by currently active users?

I'm mostly using mingw-w64 4.9.3 32-bit on Win10.

[FLOZi]

1) Is the wiki page still accurate in terms of official support for Visual Studio?

More or less

2) Is the experimental build of the code with Visual Studio limited to VS2012 (or at least only tested with this version)?

No, MadrMan and I made spring build on VS2015. The main difference is that instead of cloning vclibs11, you clone vclibs14.

Feel free to pm me if you encounter issues.

3) What are the platform(s) & compiler(s) used by currently active users?

I'm mostly using mingw-w64 4.9.3 32-bit on Win10.

https://youtu.be/QwOU3bnuU0k?t=74