Development Debugging Environment - Setup Help

[rgleason]

Thanks - I am using Cmake 3.2.2. I see that there is 3.9 available. I guess there is no upgrade notice. I'll upgrade or remove and reinstall.

Is Poedit the same deal. Should I upgrade?

[transmitterdan]

I try to keep them all up to date.

[rgleason]

TDan, I've updated to the following first by Uninstalling from Control Panel > Programs & Features. Then downloading and installing:

• cmake-3.9.4-win64-x64.exe
• Poedit-2.0.4-setup.exe
• nsis-3.02.1-setup.exe

I assume we should not upgrade even though some have upgraded with mixed results.

• wxWidgets 3.0.2
• Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Desktop.

What I am finding out is that "NSIS Unicode 2.46.5" from Unicode NSIS is needed because I am getting errrors when I download from Download - NSIS. So at the moment I cannot Package with "cpack" command as it fails.


The errors appear to be related to language ChineseSW and and unsupported_XP_SP_Version set multiple times.
See attached

• NSISoutput.log
• project.nsi
• NSIS.InstallOptions.ini

They don't seem like difficult errors to fix....or should I go back to 2.46.5?
If they are simple discrete steps or changes I can make a note in the Windows Compile Manual here for NSIS v3.02.1 modifications.


Cmake and Poedit seem to be working. I was able to use Poedit and check the Weather_routing French language file for translations, which was the first time I've done that.

[transmitterdan]

Rick,

You need Unicode NSIS.

[rgleason]

OK, I'll re-install what I had NSIS 2.46.5 Unicode.

I had found Download - NSIS which is NSIS 3.02.1 and is not Unicode.

The most current version of Unicode NSIS on google seems to be nsis-2.46.5-Unicode-setup.exe 2.46.5 Unicode Type-Installer OpSys-Windows Featured which is essentially the same as the link in our Compiling Windows document Unicode NSIS

[rgleason]

I would like to copy my local Github directory from one computer to another, locating the folder under my "Documents" directory (the same location as the original computer).

Does anyone know if this will work? Are there any changes that need to be made?

I know I will need to update Poedit, Cmake, etc.

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by rgleason

I would like to copy my local Github directory from one computer to another, locating the folder under my "Documents" directory (the same location as the original computer).

Does anyone know if this will work? Are there any changes that need to be made?

I know I will need to update Poedit, Cmake, etc.

It probably won't work. You should clone the original repository and then you can copy the build folder from the old location to the new location. Or just rebuild the build folder from scratch whichever is easier.

[nohal]

Rick...
It of course will work, there is no magic in the Git repository. It does not matter at all where you copy it, same machine, other machine, same location, other location, all the same.
The only thing that may not work after copying is the contents of the build directory generated by cmake. Simply delete it or do not copy it at all.

Pavel

[rgleason]

If only someone could guide me through the fork and pull process, it would make life so much easier.
Just ask

Get Git for Windows from Git for Windows and install it.

I suppose you are the owner of the sv-pizzazz Github account in the instructions bellow

Go to https://github.com/ab2nkovs/RMRadar_pi and click on the Fork button (Almost in the top right corner) More info at https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/ (I suppose you know how to do it as you have a fork of radar_pi under your account already)

Go to your machine and open the Developer Command Line (Or how is it called in your VS version) from VisualStudio Tools in your Start menu

Type cd <a directory of your choice for surces files> and hit Enter

Type git clone https://github.com/sv-pizzazz/RMRadar_pi.git and hit Enter

The source code of the plugin will get cloned to <The current directory>\RMRadar_pi

Type cd RMRadar_pi and hit Enter, do not close the command line window

Apply your changes to the source in the tree you just cloned (I suppose you have a tree with your changes somewhere, just copy the changed files over)

Switch back to the command line window and type git status and hit Enter, it should report changed files.

Type git commit -a -m "Changes to allow build on Windows" and hit enter

Type git push and hit Enter, you will be asked for your github account, provide the username and password

Go back to https://github.com/sv-pizzazz/RMRadar_pi, create the pull request by clicking the button

Let us see what you just did

And if any of the steps above is not clear and you get stuck, ask further...

Pavel

[rgleason]

Dave Wrote about Learning C++

C++ is like any other language learning exercise. Reading is a lot easier than writing, even if imperfectly. Just like Pascal, C++ is a procedural oriented language. So it can be broken down into step-wise pieces, each of which can be understood independently.

You can pick it up well enough to read OCPN code, and comment intelligently.

Where to start: Jump right in. Pick a smallish piece of OCPN code, and start reading. Maybe something like OCPNPlatform.cpp. Ask questions.

Try this for background: Learn C++

[rgleason]

Initially I forked stelian's repository because he had important changes that made celestial navigation work. However Sean's repos is the main one.

Is there a way to repoint to sean's repository on my "fork".
https://github.com/rgleason/celestial_navigation_pi

Currently I have these remotes:

C:\Users\Frederick\Documents\GitHub\celestial_navi gation_pi>git remote -v
origin https://github.com/rgleason/celestial_navigation_pi.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/rgleason/celestial_navigation_pi.git (push)
stelian42 https://github.com/stelian42/celesti...igation_pi.git (fetch)
stelian42 https://github.com/stelian42/celesti...igation_pi.git (push)
upstream https://github.com/seandepagnier/cel...igation_pi.git (fetch)
upstream https://github.com/seandepagnier/cel...igation_pi.git (push)

[rgleason]

evendine -Martin
Suggested a good program for figuring out Windows dll dependencies called Dependency walker which might be useful.
Dependency Walker (depends.exe) Home Page

Martin wants to build Opencpn with MSVC2010 and Win7 with dependencies formsvcp100.dll + msvcr100.dll runtime libraries (i.e. the defaults for Visual Studio 2010).

(Most of those available as binaries are msvcp120.dll + msvcr120.dll based, built with VS 2013. Need to use VS 2010 for a number of reasons explained in the thread.)

I had to rebuild my WinXP computer and I upgraded the others to Win10
so I don't have these. Perhaps someone does.

[Hakan]

had to rebuild my WinXP computer and I upgraded the others to Win10
so I don't have these. Perhaps someone does.

To make life easier for you and others:
Build on W10 acc. to Nohal's instructions. Build the package as well and install on XP. Works fine for me.
And for future ease set it up to VS2017 and wx 3.1. Here's how to: https://github.com/nohal/OpenCPN/wik...n-Windows---O5
As usual are Nohal's instructions very correct and instructive, but you've to read every word. All matters!
Håkan

[rgleason]

Hakan, for me right now the problem is that I won't be able to compile for v4.2 to v4.8.2. So I will try to have one Win10 machine with current msvc++2013 + wxwidgets 3.0.2 and the other with your suggestion following pavels instructions.
Thanks for the suggestion & info though, its encouraging.

[rgleason]

Both machines have MSVS++ 2013 and when I git fetch, both machines..

C:\Users\..\GitHub\NmeaConverter_pi>git fetch upstream
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/rooiedirk/NmeaConverter_pi.git/': error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version

Either my MSVS is out of date see github
Weak cryptographic standards removal notice
Known incompatible clients > Visual Studio"

Or my version of Git is old?
See fairly recent post (1 month) which appears to answer the problem. --> Update Git itself.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...eem-to-be-down

Has anyone else had to do this?

Updating to

Git-2.16.2-64-bit
https://git-scm.com/download/win

GitHubDesktopSetup
https://desktop.github.com/