Can't build on a modern machine (x64, Win 10), followed Readme about milton HOT 3 CLOSED

The problem is that the build.bat script indiscriminately copies the x64 version of SDL2.lib into the build directory.

A quick workaround would be to replace the following two lines in build.bat:

IF NOT EXIST build\SDL2.lib copy third_party\bin\SDL2.lib build\SDL2.lib
IF NOT EXIST build\SDL2.pdb copy third_party\bin\SDL2.pdb build\SDL2.pdb

with the these:

IF NOT EXIST build\SDL2.lib copy third_party\bin\x86\SDL2.lib build\SDL2.lib
IF NOT EXIST build\SDL2.pdb copy third_party\bin\x86\SDL2.pdb build\SDL2.pdb

That should fix the build. Just remember to change the lines back to their original values if doing an x64 build.

@serge-rgb
Maybe have the build.bat script copy the appropriate libraries based on the target architecture specified via a command line argument... something like:

build <x86 | x64>

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It's a mistake on my part. Almost all the time, I set scripts\vcvars.bat to set up a x64 environment, but the latest commit is left as x86. Personally I only care about x86 when doing a release.

I think the solution is to have build.bat check for the machine type of the current msvc compiler and automatically do the right thing. For now, I'll just try and make sure that the build compiles before pushing to github.. :)

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Closing issue. This should not be a problem once the migration to the tundra build system is complete.

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