Errors while batch build about sfgui HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi there,

Do you know how CMake was invoked? You mention having to specify SFML libraries path by hand... What is the first error message you encountered? Also, it looks like you are working from Visual Studio, do you have a more precise version?

Sorry for this long delay!

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Here is the steps I took to build on my Windows box today (full disclosure, I am a linux user at heart, so the following is command line interaction)

1. Configure the project using CMake;

   cmake -H".\" -B"Build" -DSFML_DIR="D:\Libraries\SFML32\SFML-2.5.0\lib\cmake\SFML\"
   

   I provide CMake with the path to a file called SFMLConfig.cmake, which allows find_package to know where the libraries are.

2. Build using MSBUILD

   cmake --build Build -j 6
   

   -j 6 tells MSBUILD to use 6 threads. You can also do -- /m to pass the "native" option of multicore build.

3. Wait... Compilation takes much longer than on a unix-box ;)

It completes after a while with:

    23 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

Finally, I have:

SFGUI> ls .\Build\lib\Debug\

    Directory: SFGUI\Build\lib\Debug

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        1/19/2019   1:34 PM        3656704 sfgui-d.dll
-a----        1/19/2019   1:34 PM         215320 sfgui-d.exp
-a----        1/19/2019   1:34 PM       21160384 sfgui-d.ilk
-a----        1/19/2019   1:34 PM         352610 sfgui-d.lib
-a----        1/19/2019   1:34 PM       14929920 sfgui-d.pdb

When CMake starts configuring, you can see what it picked as compilation tools, in this case:

-- Building for: Visual Studio 15 2017
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.17134.0 to target Windows 10.0.16299.
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.15.26730.0

To run examples, I found it easier to use static libraries for both SFML and SFGUI (I am not sure of Windows rules regarding shared libraries...).

-DSFGUI_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
-DSFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES=ON

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