Re: [openvrml-develop] Building openvrml

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 07:42 -0700, M. van Doeselaar wrote:
> I've been trying to build the openvrml-0.17.5 library but I can't seem to
> make it work. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but if
> not...let me know :)

It is exactly the right place.

> I already changed and added some things I found on the internet to get where
> I am now. I started with the original solution which I downloaded from
> sourceforge.
> - Added the include files from boost_1_34_1

Note that you'll need to build boost as well and tell Visual Studio
where to find the libraries.

If you are using Visual C++ 2008 (9.0), I recommend using Boost 1.35.0.
The build system in 1.34.1 doesn't know about that compiler.

> - Rearranged the include files so the DirectX SDK's come last (because of a
> new version of strsafe.h)

I think I've heard of this one; though I haven't built with the DirectX
SDK present.

> - Used the png and ft2build from openscenegraph

For these, I generally use the official distributions.  They include
usable project files.

> - Switched 'public
> openvrml::node_impl_util::abstract_node<Derived>::exposedfield<mfnode>' with
> 'public openvrml::node_impl_util::abstract_node<Derived>::template
> exposedfield<openvrml::mfnode>' (# if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER == 1500,
> not sure why, before I switched it, it gave an error)

This is fixed on the trunk. (Though it looks like the fix didn't make it
over to the 0.17 branch; I'll address that.)

> Now I'm stuck at this error:
> vrml97node.cpp(23273) : error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from
> 'int (__cdecl *)(const FT_Vector *const ,void *const )' to
> 'FT_Outline_MoveToFunc'
> 1>        None of the functions with this name in scope match the target
> type

FreeType changed its function signatures some releases ago.  Either get
a fresher FreeType or set OPENVRML_FT_CONST to an empty string.  It is
set to "const" in the included project files.

> And this error:
> vrml97node.cpp(27736) : error C2885: 'child_node': not a valid
> using-declaration at non-class scope

For some reason, you need to qualify child_node here:
"openvrml::child_node".

As with the above issue, this is fixed on the trunk.

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