[Gtkradiant] Compiling ZeroRadiant on Windows 7

[Timothee BESSET]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Willi <willi at schinmeyer.de> wrote:
> 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?)
>

Correction, MSVC's STL is deficient.

> Looking at the ZeroRadiant Trac page I believe I got those from
> http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/files/radiant/developer/1.6.1/ (the deps zip
> file).
>

Yeah I generated those. Should still be fine with express 2008.

> 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
>

I can't really spend much time on this but I'd rather give access to
the trac wiki for that kind of stuff. Although migrating all that
stuff to a launchpad/github whatever could be a valid goal if activity
picks up. Would probably want to retain the local SVN since the game
paks are under a proprietary license.

TTimo

> 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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