Compiling OpenCPN for Windows

[Rasbats]

Tracked down the problems with Community 2015 and a new page has been added to the wiki.

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...s2015_workflow

Still very much a work in progress. In particular I was not able to use nmake and the command prompt for building wxWidgets. Needed VS Community 2015 for this. Perhaps this was caused by the edits that were needed to the wxWidgets source files.

Also the issue of the additional dependencies to be added to build OpenCPN needed some work.

The build runs on XP when you have downloaded and run the C++ Redistributable 2015.

Mike

[Hakan]

Originally Posted by nohal

Guys...
Is there something wrong with letting Git handle the Windows CR/LF mess on Windows as we always did and is described in https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...piling_windows (Paragraph 1.2)
It is completely editor/IDE agnostic and actually works...

Pavel

Of course not, as said Git is the master for line endings as of your excellent manual base. But I suppose it would not harm to describe how to maintain VS2013 in the same direction.
Håkan

[transmitterdan]

Let Git enforce line endings.

[transmitterdan]

I am building with VS2015 and wxWidgets 3.1 from Github. I feel that for newbies VS 2015 is a bridge too far right now. To use wx 3.0.2 I had to edit the wx header files. Also not for the newbie IMO.

VS2015 adds numerous new warnings and wx 3.1 generates lots of traps in debug mode. Am working on clearing all the traps. But will not submit a PR until Dave gets 4.6 out the door. Let's focus on 4.6 until it is ready, again just my opinion.

[rgleason]

Pavel,
I like this. When the subject came up and Notepad++ was mentioned should be in CR/LF mode, I realized I had never considered that! So I checked it and I could only find online How to set Notepad++ CR/LR CR and LF characters shown at the end of each line in Notepad++ - Super User

Toggle the setting View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line
Show All Characters should also be unchecked.T
There is also an Icon on Main Notepad++ interface to disable/enable these special characters (under "Run".

So, this afternoon I was wondering if I should issue a new PR for the weatherfax_pi xml updates to Sean. Now I know its not needed! Thank you.

Originally Posted by nohal
Guys...
Is there something wrong with letting Git handle the Windows CR/LF mess on Windows as we always did and is described in https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...piling_windows (Paragraph 1.2)
It is completely editor/IDE agnostic and actually works...

Pavel

Windows programs expect their newline format in CRLF (\r\n). *nix expect just LF data (\n). If you open a Unix text document in Notepad on windows, you'll notice that all of the line breaks disappear and the entire document is on one line. That's because Notepad expects CRLF data, and the Unix document doesn't have the \r character.

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thoms...g-notepad.aspx

Use Search and Replace

Another option is to go to Edit -> EOL Conversion -> Unix Format.