Failing to build DarkRadiant 64bit with MSVC 2010 64bit

[motorsep]

Trying to build DarkRadiant from Git using MSVC 2010 Express. Other 64bit apps compile just fine (dhewm3 for example is one of them).

 

Here is the error log: http://pastebin.com/LRCtu6KF

 

Another detailed log for one of the modules failed to compile: http://pastebin.com/C0e0i2Se

 

How to fix ? Thanks.

Edited August 27, 2013 by motorsep

[greebo]

Assuming you're running VC++ 2010 Express plus the Windows SDK, does this link help?

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9821700/visual-studio-2010-express-win-sdk-cannot-open-input-file-kernel32-lib

 

DR (latest checkout) builds fine in VC++ 2010 Premium here on my end.

[motorsep]

Aye, I have WinSDK and Express, but, if I switch platform toolset to 7.1 instead of standard vc100, then it's trying to link to *.WindowsSDK7.1a.lib files from w32deps/ and w64deps/, and those dependencies were not built with SDK 7.1, they were built with vc100 (as vc100 or vc110 suffixes of the lib files in w32deps/ and w64deps/ indicate that).

 

I checked paths and everything is set correctly in the projects' properties.

 

What I can confirm is that it does compile in MSVC 2010 Premium and Ultimate (someone with the same setup as mine, but with Ultimate MSVC compiled DR for Win64 without any issues).

[greebo]

Why do need to change the platform toolset to "7.1"? It should be "vc100" of course since you're compiling with VC++ 2010.

[motorsep]

I was just trying to see if vc100 was not what DR needed. Turned out that vc100 is what it needs, and that's how I tried compiling it. Still no go

[motorsep]

One thing that just occurred to me - MSVC2010 Express doesn't come with 64bit support. Only with 32bit. To be able to compile for 64bit arch, Win SDK 7.1 has to be installed.

 

But because precompiled libs come from MSVC2010 Premium, and Express needs to use WinSDK 7.1 platform toolset for 64bit arch, it creates incompatibility.

[AluminumHaste]

I was just going to post that Express versions do not support 64bit.

I compiled the 64 bit version just a few weeks ago, you can find it listed in this post:

 

http://forums.thedar...post__p__312934

[motorsep]

I don't want to use pirate's bay's soft on my PC. Not only it's kinda awkward to use pirated MSVC where there is a free version out there, officially available, but it's also a potential virus/malware threat. Really serious one btw.

[AluminumHaste]

Understandable, the only issue is that the free one doesn't do what you need it to do, thought I would share my experience on the matter.

Hope you get it figured out though

[motorsep]

I was able to build DR 64bit with Express, libjpeg failed, the rest was build fine with bunch of warnings though. DR launcher, but as soon as I try create an entity, it crashes

 

What I did was editing properties/ files and replacing automatic suffix fetching based on Platform Toolset, to vc100.lib, hard coded. Then I manually set WinSDk 7.1 for each project in the solution via IDE and compiled.

 

I am sure since libs were compiled using vc100 toolkit that comes with VC Premium, and WinSDK7.1, something went wrong internally and that causes DR to crash.

 

It would be nice if w64deps were rebuilt using WinSDK 7.1. Then it would compile with any version of MSVC as long as WinSDK 7.1 is installed.

[Sotha]

Umm.. Maybe someone should delete the piratebay links and comments? (including this one.)

 

We don't want to publicly endorse piracy in any way, right? At least I wouldn't want to get TDM associated with pirate activity. Not worth the risk.

[AluminumHaste]

Links removed

[greebo]

Why don't you switch to VC++ 2012 Express then? It comes with built-in x64 support, and I think last time I tried compiling it worked right out of the box.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/deu/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop

[motorsep]

I need to read EULA on it.. I know for a fact I can use MSVC2010 Express to make commercial apps. Not sure if that's the case with MSVC2012 Express. Also, I don't know if I can have both 2010 and 2012 installed side by side, because dhewm3 and Doom 3 BFG don't come with 2012 solutions, and I don't really want to mess with them if converting solution for 2010 into 2012 doesn't go well.

 

If I can have 2010 and 2012 side by side, without one affecting another, I will look into it.

 

I hope DR 1.7.4 will be out rather sooner, so I don't have to mess with all that

[OrbWeaver]

I'm no Windows development expert and it's a long time since I did this, but the last released Windows builds (1.7.3) of DarkRadiant were made with MSVC 2010 Express and freely-available SDK downloads. I remember there was a lot of messing around involved and at some point I had to edit a file in the MSVC installation directory to point to the right libraries/SDK/whatever, but there was certainly no need for the MSVC Premium version.

 

Greebo's suggestion to use 2012 does sound a lot easier though, so I will probably try this if/when I next need to set up a Windows build environment.