[Gtkradiant] Compiling ZeroRadiant on Windows 7

[Willi]

  MSVC8 is Microsoft Visual Studio (Express) 2008 (for C++). I believe 
the 2010 version would just introduce new problems but I haven't tried yet.

GTK has a precompiled windows library but it's not recommended for MSVC 
 > 6.0 (unless you know what you're doing, which I don't), I'm not sure 
why that is so. There's multiple GTK Parts (pango, cairo and what not) 
and I don't even know which of them are required.

I've still got parts of some ancient compiling environment that used to 
work once and its contents are:

    * gtk2 (atk, cairo, glib, gtk, gtkglext, libpng, pango)
    * libjpeg (both version 6b and 7 though I guess only one of them is
      actually used)
    * libxml
    * mhash
    * STLport (appearently MSVS's STL is insufficient?)

Looking at the ZeroRadiant Trac page 
<http://www.qeradiant.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/ZeroRadiant> I believe I 
got those from 
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/files/radiant/developer/1.6.1/ (the deps 
zip file).

We should write down some kind of tutorial for compiling on Windows as 
we figure this out, how to set the dependencies up etc. We could use 
Google Documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1apP726StvcKbhikD9FUqPg5t5RHOocB7Zke3ZkWuXmI/edit?hl=de&authkey=CKSglKkG 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1apP726StvcKbhikD9FUqPg5t5RHOocB7Zke3ZkWuXmI/edit?hl=de&authkey=CKSglKkG>

Or we could just update the dependency package, but I feel some kind of 
guide would be nice nonetheless.

Am 16.11.2010 22:30, schrieb Timothee BESSET:
> You probably want to do that with me around on IRC. Ideally if someone
> is going to work on getting a compiling environment together on
> Windows for anything serious, it should be done in some kind of VM
> environment so we can just store and distribute that.
>
> Far as compiler, you should be ok with Visual Studio Express 2008 (the
> free edition) or newer. You'll need to get the Gtk and dependent libs
> from zerowing (they should be linked), but it's been so long those may
> need to be updated as well.
>
> TTimo
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Nerius Landys<nlandys at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Guys, I'm going to try compiling and running ZeroRadiant on my Windows 7
>> machine when I get home from work today.
>> The instructions here:
>> http://www.qeradiant.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/ZeroRadiant don't seem very
>> detailed.
>> Does anyone here have thorough experience compiling on Windows and you could
>> share some knowledge with me?
>> For example, what is "MSVC8"? (Google didn't really give me the answer.)
>> Do I need to buy any software to compile and run ZeroRadiant on Windows?
>> I have no idea how libraries such as Gtk are found (runtime) or you you
>> compile against it (headers).  I come from a UNIX background.
>> Would be nice to even figure out how to bundle the whole application and run
>> it easily, but that may be down the road.
>> For right now I just want to compile and run in any way possible, so I can
>> address any issues that Radiant has specific to Windows.
>>
>> - Rambetter
>>
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