I am trying to set up the ODE source code to work in visual studio. I have followed to instructions given in this link, which say to cd to the build directory and run the commnad premake4 vs2008.
that runs fine, and indeed, all the vs2008 files are created. But when I try to compile the project, I get an error saying that ode.dll cannot be found - should it be downloaded\installed separately or am I doing something wrong?
you should take a look a this link below
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/arsproject/index.php?title=Main_Page#Visual_Studio
go to the section (middle of the page) Open Dynamic Engine (ODE)
Installation Steps for Windows.
I followed these steps and the installation works fine. In the ODE lib folder, do you have 2 folders
with name such as DebugDoubleDll or ReleaseDoubleDll? if you have compiled in double precision.
If yes, you should have a library named ode_doubled.lib in the ODE lib folder.
Did you try to run the demo executable to test your installation?
Last thing, did you include in your PATH environment variable the lib folder (where the libraries are located), if no, it's probably the reason why you have this error message.
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I recently installed vs15 - preview (Stripped down version of visual studio 2015).
I am able to compile C/C++ sources from inside the IDE, but I am not able to compile with the command line interface cl.exe. It can't find the c stdlib headers. I tried to use vcvars32.bat to set the proper reg values but seemingly it cant find the "Common Tools Folder".
"ERROR: Cannot determine the location of the VS Common Tools folder."
The script uses the env. variable "%VS150COMNTOOLS%".
If I try to run "cd %VS150COMNTOOLS%" from the cmd line, it can't find the path, so this seems to be the main problem.
How can manually set %VS150COMNTOOLS% to the right path? how can I set the cmd linker settings manually (Without telling the cl.exe every time I call it)?
Okay, I solved it by adding the path to the include directories and lib directories to the env. variables as "INCLUDE", "LIB". It works now, whyever the script was not able to set those values properly. I am not fluent in reading .bat let away writing in, I assume the directory structure, which is different for the vs15 preview when compared to the full version, had not been adapted yet.
I have 2 questions regarding NGINX:
Is there any one who had already compile NGINX with Visual Studio? I want create a VS9 Project for compiling NGINX.
It's my veritable need, is there any way to compile NGINX as Lib or DLL?
I just finished building a Visual Studio 2010 project for nginx. The process wasn't entirely straight-forward, so I will attempt to detail everything I've learned. This is a several-hour to several day process, depending on your experience.
Step 1: You must first follow the Guide for building nginx on windows. This not only builds nginx, but also creates .c and .h files that you will use when creating your Visual Studio project. It won't work without these files. (For more information, see here.)
If you are less experienced with Unix like me, the guide above leaves some unanswered questions. So I'll first flesh out that guide with tips of my own, and then later, tell you more about creating a project for Visual Studio.
Part I: Compiling nginx for windows using MSYS
First, follow all the steps given above. Install MSYS, Strawberry Perl, Mercurial, and download the PCRE, zlib, and OpenSSL libraries. Then follow these steps:
1) Open a command prompt As Administrator. Then run your Visual Studio vc\vcvarsall.bat file to set
your environment variables to use VC as the compiler. Your paths will be different, but the command I used was:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
I found that even though the Strawberry Perl added 3 paths (which you can verify by examining your PATH variable), it still was using the wrong Perl.
2) Launch MSys by running msys.bat. For me, MSys was installed inside of the MinGW directory, so my path was:
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
If successful, you should see something like this in green:
JensenV#AVWMA047LB ~
(except with your username#networkaddress instead) in a window called something like MINGW32:~
You might be wondering where your 'home folder is. It's under msys\1.0\home. So on my system, it's here:
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\JensenV
If you do "ls" or "dir" this is the directory you're in initially.
3) Assuming you installed Mercurial as instructed above, you should now be able to check out ngynx source:
hg clone http://hg.nginx.org/nginx
This will go into the directory mentioned above.
4) You need to make sure the version of perl being used is strawberry perl, NOT the version that comes with msys. Type:
which perl
If you get something like "/bin/perl.exe" that's the wrong perl and you need to fixing your paths. You can either mess with this (as I did, unsuccessfully) OR you can just disable the version of perl that comes with msys. I just renamed
perl.exe to perl_UNUSED.exe in my msys install:
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
Whatever you do, make sure "which perl" shows the path to Strawberry Perl before proceeding.
5) Also renamed "link.exe" in my msys\1.0\bin directory:
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
so that it's unused. (i.e. rename it to "link_UNUSED.exe")
I believe this is because, in Step 1 above, your "vcvarsall.bat" set everything to use Microsoft C's compiler/linker, but then in Step 2, the linker was changed to use the Msys one instead. You need to use the Microsoft one.
To verify renaming as "link_UNUSED.exe" was successful, type:
which link
and ensure it points to your Visual Studio 10 link, not the link.exe that came with msys.
6) First "cd nginx" then create an objs/lib folder tree inside of the nginx folder. Untar/unzip pcre, zlib, and openssl in here as mentioned in the guide.
7) While your current directory is still nginx, run nginx's autoconfigure script, but first modify the command below to change the paths for
sopenssl, pcre, and zlib to be correct for what you installed in objs/lib (your version numbers may be different). The command I used was:
auto/configure --with-cc=cl --builddir=objs --prefix= \
--conf-path=conf/nginx.conf --pid-path=logs/nginx.pid \
--http-log-path=logs/access.log --error-log-path=logs/error.log \
--sbin-path=nginx.exe --http-client-body-temp-path=temp/client_body_temp \
--http-proxy-temp-path=temp/proxy_temp \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=temp/fastcgi_temp \
--with-cc-opt=-DFD_SETSIZE=1024 \
--with-pcre=objs/lib/pcre-8.33 \
--with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.8 \
--with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.1f \
--with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
If you want to change any configuration options, NOW IS THE TIME. These options affect the generated .c and .h files that you will use later in creating your Visual Studio project, and trust me, you don't want to have to redo that later when you realize you need different options.
7) Make it.
nmake -f objs/Makefile
If successful, your freshly compiled nginx.exe should be inside your home\YourUsername\nginx\objs folder. i.e. something like:
C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\JensenV\nginx\objs
In addition, these files will now be in the same folder as nginx.exe:
ngx_auto_config.h
ngx_auto_headers.h
ngx_modules.c
ngx_pch.c
You will use these in creating your Visual Studio project.
8) Have a beer.
**
Part II: Creating the Visual Studio nginx Project
**
Create an empty Visual Studio project for Command Line application. Save the project inside your nginx folder (root level). Note that before this step you can move your nginx folder outside of msys to wherever you want to keep it.
1) Go to Properties -> VC++ Directories and add these Include Directories:
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\core
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\event
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\event\modules
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\http
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\http\modules
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\http\modules\perl
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\mail
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\misc
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\mysql
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\os
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\src\os\win32
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\openssl\ssl\include
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\zlib
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\pcre
NOTE: Before this step I went into objs/lib and removed the version numbers from the zlib, pcre, and ssl folders. Either you should do this to, OR you should modify the paths above to match your installed versions. I removed the version numbers so that I can update to newer versions of these libraries in the future without breaking my project.
Click on the "Macros >>" button and verify that the MSBuildProjectDirectory path is a path to your nginx folder.
2) Likewise add these paths to your Library Directories:
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\openssl\ssl\lib\
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\pcre\
$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\objs\lib\zlib\
Again, modify these paths to include version numbers if your objs/lib folder's contents still have version numbers.
3) Change these Project Properties as follows:
C/C++
General: Set "Treat warnings as errors" to No (WX-)
Preprocessor: Add these Preprocessor Definitions:
WIN32
NGX_WIN32
NGX_MAIL_SSL
NO_SYS_TYPES_H
FD_SETSIZE=1024
Linker:
Input: Add the following to Additional Dependencies:
ws2_32.lib
pcre.lib
ssleay32.lib
libeay32.lib
crypt32.lib
zlib.lib
4) Close your Visual Studio solution. Open up the project file (ends in .vcxproj) with a good text editor, such as Notepad++. (Make a backup copy of it first, in case anything goes wrong.) Also open up nginx\objs\makefile with a text editor.
In the makefile, not too far from the top, you'll see a section that starts something like this:
objs/nginx.exe: objs/src/core/nginx.obj \
objs/src/core/ngx_log.obj \
objs/src/core/ngx_palloc.obj \
objs/src/core/ngx_array.obj \
....
objs/ngx_modules.obj \
objs/nginx.res \
objs/lib/pcre-8.33/pcre.lib \
objs/lib/zlib-1.2.8/zlib.lib
$(LINK) #<<
Likewise, in the Visual Studio file, if you've added any source code (add any files you want prior to this step, so you can see what I'm talking about) you'll see something like this:
Create a new document containing just the .obj files from the makefile. Use Search & Replace in a text editor to modify them to match the format of the Visual Studio project file instead (so ending in .c /> instead of with .obj \, and starting with
Also don't forget to change the forward slashes to backslashes. Don't include the zlib.lib or pcre.lib lines. I forget if you should include nginx.res. (Probably not.)
Once you're sure the format is right, save your Visual Studio project and try opening it. If all the files from the makefile show up in your project, you did it correctly.
5) Remember those special .c and .h files that nginx created when you built the exe? You want to add them to your project now, too. Add these guys:
ngx_modules.c
ngx_pch.c
6) Now you're ready to compile!
I've honestly probably forgotten something along the way, so you might still have some linker or compile errors to fix, but this should give you a good start!
NOTE: If you want to change which options are included in nginx, you'll have to do a new auto/configure in Part I above, a new nmake, and then include additional source code in you Visual Studio project, and use the newly generated ngx_modules.c and ngx_pch.c files in your Visual Studio project.
Whenever I try to load a PNG using SDL_Image's IMG_Load function it gives the error Failed loading libpng16-16.dll:. I have all the right dll's in the right path and I can use other parts of SDL_Image, but for some reason it can't load the libpng dll. How can I fix this? Any help is appreciated.
It appears that libpng16-16.dll has a dependency on zlib1.dll for MinGW-w64 (32-bit). Try to include zlib into your dependnecies--include the DLL in the folder where the executable runs.
See my article "SDL2: Loading Images with SDL_image":
If you're going to run from Visual Studio, make sure the image is in the same folder as your main.cpp file; otherwise if you're running straight from the executable, the image should be in the same folder with it.
Needless to say, what I wrote about the image here goes for the DLLs as well.
The VS do not searches dlls on anywhere except the execution dir, so you probably need to copy that dll to the Debug/ directory on your solution's path.
Very niche answer, but for those running into this issue because of pySDL2, it could be caused because your python interpreter is sub-par. For me, using the windows store install for python interpreter 3.10, gave this issue. However, when I switched to 3.10 from python.org all my issues were fixed.
This link show you how to set up SDL library/libpng16-16.dll to be available for acceess by the compiler.exe (the last step right before the sample code)
yourProgram proprety page -> Builds event-> post-build event
in my case i have
copy “C:\Users\MehdiB\Desktop\C Program\Library\SDL2-devel-2.0.4-VC\SDL2-2.0.4\lib\x86\SDL2.dll” “$(OutDir)SDL2.dll”;
copy “C:\Users\MehdiB\Desktop\C Program\Library\SDL2_image-devel-2.0.1-VC\SDL2_image-2.0.1\lib\x86\SDL2_image.dll” “$(OutDir)SDL2_image.dll”;
copy “C:\Users\MehdiB\Desktop\C Program\Library\dll\libjpeg-9.dll” “$(OutDir)libjpeg-9.dll”
here where you can get this dll
i just replaced zlib1.dll in system32 and SysWOW64 with the one downloaded from
https://github.com/OctaForge/OF-Windows/blob/master/bin_win32/zlib1.dll
.and worked nicely
im just starting out with FreeSwitch, i downloaded via git, and am trying to build in VS
all i need i believe are the dlls of mod_managed, as my goal is to manage FS via .net
but i get 248 errors, most look something like this:
Error 5 error C1083: Cannot open source file: '....\jpeg-8d\jaricom.c': No such file or directory D:\FreeSwitch\freeswitch\libs\win32\libjpeg\c1 libjpeg
btw, i searched windows and cannot find any such file anywhere on my pc.
I tried
cleaning the solution first, but it did not help
moving the file to a path without spaces
downloading with autocrlf=false
building on another machine
but none of these steps helped
anybody have any idea?
if i can just download the dlls i need, i wouldnt mind skipping this step altogether
environment
win 8 64bit
visual studio 2012
thanks a million
The libjpeg sources are not in the git sources but are normally downloaded during the build process. If you build the entire solution that should not be a problem since it has the project dependencies set: libjpeg.2012 depends on Download libjpg.2012, which means the latter gets built before the first. All Download libjpg.2012 is run a cscript which downloads libjpeg from http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz (see inside the project file).
So if you do not have the sources, either you are building incorrectly (not in VS for instance, or with a broken solution file) or the download script is broken. In that case, you should inspect the output: I assume it shows errors when it can not download the libs.
I have a freshly downloaded Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express and wxWidgets 2.9.1. The build folder under wx\build\msw has solution files for VC++ versions 6 through 9 (2008).
I tried to open the latest solution, wx_vc9.sln. It converted all the projects with a bunch of warnings. When I try to build every project gets the error:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(151,5):
error MSB6001: Invalid command line
switch for "cmd.exe". The path is not
of a legal form.
Trying to open the previous version of the solution, wx_vc8.sln, generates the same conversion warnings and the same build errors.
I Googled for some hints and found a suggestion to start with the .dsw file. I opened wx.dsw and it generated an error for each of the project files:
D:\3rdParty\wx\build\msw\wx_wxregex.dsp
: error : Project upgrade failed.
Finally in desperation I tried nmake /f makefile.vc and was greeted with yet another error:
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' :
return code '0xc0000135'
Anybody have any hints? Thanks.
There are two ways of solving this, firstly if you update to a more recent version of the wxWidgets SVN trunk this is fixed (and so it will be fixed in 2.9.2 when it is released). If you don't want to work from trunk of wait for 2.9.2 then if you do a find and replace over all .vcxproj files and replace
>$(INTDIR) $(OUTDIR);%(AdditionalInputs)
with
>%(FullPath);%(AdditionalInputs)
it should then compile fine.
For future reference, trust me people, avoid all nonsense and start up your Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt and navigate to [wxwidgets directory]\build\msw
Then compile using the makefile with the following command :
nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=release MONOLITHIC=0 SHARED=0 UNICODE=1
Of course change the options as needed.
You will be saving a lot of trouble this way, this is the way I did.
The Key to Compilation using Visual C++ 2010 Express and wxWidgets 2.9.3 is to keep Pressing F7 Again-and-Again-and-again.... till you you get '0 Failed' Message below. Because many Projects have dependencies which are not satisfied immediately, so it is necessary to keep compiling with 'F7' till all are satisfied.
Download wxWidgets. I downloaded the .7-Zip File (only 12 MB ! ), and installed it at C:\wxWidgets The Structure should be like so that you see the following Folders like C:\wxWidgets\lib and C:\wxWidgets\build etc etc...
Basically the process should be to go to C:\wxWidgets\build\msw , and open wx_vc9 Solution File for VC-2008, and convert it to VC-2010 when asked. Then Choose 'DLL-Release Win32' on Top, and Press F7. Wait for Compilation to take place and see the Message. Then keep Pressing F7 again and again till you get '0 Failed' Message below. Then you would want to Compile 'DLL-Debug' Release in the same manner.
The compiled DLL Files can then be found at C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll. Now, To Add vc_dll Folder to your PATH, Right-Click on My-Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment-Variables -> User-Variables. Search for 'Path' -> 'Edit', and then Just Append ;C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll to the End.
This makes running your compiled Application easier, as your .EXE can now easily find DLLs.
When you are packaging, then you obviously need to bundle specific Release-DLL'S along.
Then you can compile the Samples located at C:\wxWidgets\samples.
I just go to individual Project Folder, like for e.g. C:\wxWidgets\samples\drawing, and Open drawing_vc9 Project, then Convert it as Prompted, and then hit F7 to create Release Version. Now if you go inside C:\wxWidgets\samples\drawing\vc_mswudll\ Folder, you have your 'drawing.exe' ready-to-be-run !
Have fun !
Use the wx.dsw, took me a while to finally get it but it'll build fine after that. I also suggest using one of the sample projects such as 'minimal' as the base and just fix all the config paths to match what you want to build (as manually setting up I encountered issues).
If you already used the wx_vc9 (like you said you did) you are probably best off just deleting all of wx and restarting with it and using wx.dsw like I said above.