Building OpenCPN with Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2010

[marcello]

I've downloaded Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2010 and tried to compile following the instructions on the site.

I've created the build directory and then launched
cmake -G „Visual Studio 9 2008“ . that does not work.

What is the command to build the solution file that I can then open with Visual Studio to build openCPN?

Thanks
Marcello

[PjotrC]

I do not know 2010, I use VS 2008, but maybe the attached notes will be helpful at some point... let me know if it's too cryptic.

Some months ago I was fighting literally for weeks with the build process, and even now I need to fix some steps by hand.

Good luck,

Piotr

[bdbcat]

PjotrC....

I am confused. You should be able to build Unicode wxWidgets dlls, and then link OCPN to them. That is what we distribute as releases.

However,
I found that cmake module "FindwxWidgets" is buggy. Best to remove the ANSI wxwidgets dlls, so that it can only possibly find the Unicode varieties.

...or...
Use the GUI version of cmake for Windows, and override the wxwidgets library selections, to force Unicode build.

I build for Unicode everyday from the 2.5 git sources without problem.

Let me know how I can help.

Dave

[PjotrC]

Thanks, Dave... I can live with the status quo I have now.

The manual steps I have to do are:

- after every _re_build I have to reset the character code to Unicode in all projects (in Visual Studio, project properties)
- building of PACKAGE always fails in the last step, that can be easily done manually

Thanks again,

Piotr

[nohal]

marcello...
The build went quite straight in VS 2010 as far as I can remember. Don't know anymore whether there were some more things different (no more VS 2010 machine at hand to try right now), but at least one's for sure:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 10"

is the way to invoke cmake when using VS 2010

Pavel