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

[José Fonseca]

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 Finally, the “glsl_apps_compile” project seems to be out of date.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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