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A few notes on ongoing Windows support for VOS:
1. Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2005. Of particular interest is
Visual C++ "express edition" which is currently free to download:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/
Important notes on setting up the Win32 Platform SDK here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
2. I'm working on automatically generating visual studio project and
solution filesfrom our automake files. I had originally looked into using
the msvcgen system developed for Crystal Space, but determined it would
require just about as much effort to understand *their* system as to roll
my own. So I've been hacking on this. Currently it generates viable
vcproj files, and the code to generate solution files is done (but hasn't
been tested). In true Unix tradition, the generator scripts are a
somewhat sticky combination of shell, make, sed and m4, but for what it
does it's actually a suprisingly small amount of code and avoids
dependencies on large external tools such as Template Toolkit (required
for Crystal Space's msvcgen). The m4 macros may require an advanced
degree in computer science to understand, though. :-)
3. There's also a script I wrote a few months ago than generates nmake
files from automake.
4. Although it goes against policy that "no file that can be generated
automatically shall go into CVS", I'm thinking that I will commit the
vcproj, nmake and solution files, because Windows users who would make use
of these files are less likely to have the required Unix environment on
hand to build them.
5. I now have access to Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, so those are the
versions I intend to support. If the project files are basically the
same, then I can support 2002 as well. Visual Studio 6? Bwahahahahah
hahahahah... no.
6. Mingw continues to be supported via the standard autoconf build system.
My hope for this version is to figure out a workaround so that a cygwin
install (for the file(1) command) is not required.
7. Building in Cygwin (with -mno-cygwin) is not at this time supported,
although I can play around with itif someone feels strongly about it.
8. I'm working towards the 0.23 release. No firm date on that yet (likely
January) and the focus of this release is to make it easy for new
developers to build VOS with a minimum of hassle. The other major new
feature of this release will be the XML Object Description (XOD) format
for loading and saving collections of Vobjects, and a generic loader/saver
architechture for object import/export to supported various file formats.
[ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
[Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet]
[ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ]
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