BRL-CAD builds pervasively on a number of different operating systems, hardware, and compilers. We actively seek out new compilation environments and like to get them working as best as we can. We regularly build with Microsoft Visual Studio (the professional one you have to pay for), GCC, and a number of other compilers. One we don't heavily test is Visual Studio Express (only available for Windows)
This task involves attempting to compile BRL-CAD using the MSVC Express 2013 compiler. You'll need to download our source code, CMake, and MSVC. Compile BRL-CAD and keep notes of everything you do along the way. You'll report back any failures and otherwise document all the steps you take. Submit a complete build log and your notes documenting everything you did. Join IRC to discuss your progress and let us help.
We will create follow-on tasks if you make any fixes that get the build working.
Resources:
- http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling
- http://www.cmake.org/
- http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads
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| submission.zip | 63.3 KB | December 04 2014 16:14 UTC | |
| submission.zip | 70.4 KB | December 05 2014 16:54 UTC | |
| submission.zip | 267.0 KB | December 06 2014 04:18 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
This task has been assigned to wltan. You have 100 hours to complete this task, good luck!
I have downloaded all the required material (namely CMake, the BRL-CAD source code, and Visual Studio Express 2013).
The problem comes when CMake is run. According to the output, CMake attempts to find several different header files, but is unable to find them. Basic items like the STL are still found, but the 3rd party headers are not found by CMake.
BRL-CAD is supposed to come bundled with all the necessary 3rd party components. I can find some of the "missing" header files within src/other (which is supposedly where these components are kept). However, CMake simply does not recognize that these header files exist.
As a result, CMake does not generate any makefile after completing execution. Without the makefile there's nothing to
make, so I cannot continue with the compilation.I must have missed out some configuration beforehand. However, I am already following the instructions on http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling as closely as possible. I have tried using different directories, using the snapshot release sources from Sourceforge, etc. without success. I have no idea what to do next, short of trying to add every single directory to CMake's CMAKE_MODULE_PATH (which probably isn't the right thing to do).
It's probably a very simple solution. I would appreciate it if anyone could help.
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Nice start.
Can you join #brlcad on IRC (http://brlcad.org/wiki/IRC)? We can work through the issues you were having more easily there.
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There are a few copies of submission.zip uploaded.
To anyone reading this, you need only download the latest submission.zip file. The older files are not required as the newest submission includes the older notes.
If I could delete the older files, I would. But there's no 'delete' button so just ignore them, thanks.
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