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

[Brian Paul]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Yahya H. Mirza <yahya at aurorasoft.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I’ve been trying to build Mesa 7.10 on Windows 7 / Visual Studio 2010 and I
> have been having some problems.
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> \windows\VC8\mesa\mesa.sln, it was automatically converted to VS2010.
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> When I tried to build the various projects there were a number of problems
> including a number of misconfigured build directories.
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> Additionally, when building the mesa project in VS2010, it has trouble
> finding a path for building “predefined shaders”.
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> Finally, the “glsl_apps_compile” project seems to be out of date.
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> Is there an updated version of this solution file for Mesa7.10 / VS2010, or
> has anyone successfully built Mesa7.10 with CMAKE?
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> 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