[Mesa-dev] Building Mesa 7.10 on Windows 7 / Visual Studio 2010

[Brede Johansen]

> No need to use command line to build. See
> http://www.scons.org/wiki/IDEIntegration

You are correct, it is possible to build from within Visual Studio
but, this solution only executes the scons command.
Of course what I'm after is full integration (editor, project source
tree, debugging, profiling etc.).

Brede


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:13 -0800, Brede Johansen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have made VS2008 project and solution files based on the scons
>> files.  I have also included generation of necessary source files from
>> python as part of the build.  This also works in VS2010.
>> My requirement was to get OpenGL software rendering to work so it's
>> not tested for other configurations.  I also had to make small changes
>> to the source code, like casting void pointers to the proper type
>> (malloc).
>>
>> > The MSVC project files for Mesa haven't been maintained in a while.
>> > They'll be removed in the next Mesa release.  Instead, take a look at
>> > the instructions for building with scons.
>>
>> This is sad news for me and probably a few others on the Windows
>> platform.  Most of us are used to writing code and debug inside Visual
>> Studio and would be pretty helpless working from the command line.
>> In December I tried to submit the project and solution files to
>> mesa-user as an attachment but the post was to big and I didn't have
>> the time to follow up.  Btw. git is new territory for me.
>
> No need to use command line to build. See
> http://www.scons.org/wiki/IDEIntegration
>
> Jose
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Brian Paul <brian.e.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Yahya H. Mirza <yahya at aurorasoft.net> wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I’ve been trying to build Mesa 7.10 on Windows 7 / Visual Studio 2010 and I
>> >> have been having some problems.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> When I opened
>> >>
>> >> \windows\VC8\mesa\mesa.sln, it was automatically converted to VS2010.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> When I tried to build the various projects there were a number of problems
>> >> including a number of misconfigured build directories.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Additionally, when building the mesa project in VS2010, it has trouble
>> >> finding a path for building “predefined shaders”.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Finally, the “glsl_apps_compile” project seems to be out of date.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is there an updated version of this solution file for Mesa7.10 / VS2010, or
>> >> has anyone successfully built Mesa7.10 with CMAKE?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Any suggestions on successfully building Mesa7.10 for Windows7 / VS2010
>> >> would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > The MSVC project files for Mesa haven't been maintained in a while.
>> > They'll be removed in the next Mesa release.  Instead, take a look at
>> > the instructions for building with scons.
>> >
>> > -Brian
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