[openvrml-develop] OpenVRML 0.16.6 on Windows.. still no success.

[Philip L. <ph...@ed...>]

Hi all,

If anyone here is successfully using OpenVRML-0.16.6 on Windows (e.g.  
can open a .wrl file with sdl-viewer.exe), I'd like to hear how you  
did it. Getting it working has been a labyrinthine mess. I can  
compile OK (if OK means with 500+ warnings) but actually viewing  
anything is an unreached goal.

Here are the steps so far:
1) try to compile boost on Windows. Give up. Use boost- 
consulting.com's somewhat broken boost binaries installer. OK.
2) try to compile openvrml against gnuwin32's freetype/zlib/libpng/ 
jpeg. C-runtime model incompatibility forces download and build zlib,  
jpeg, libpng, freetype from source. Oh joy.
3) try to compile openvrml. Fix issues with openvrml.vsproj file,  
including include paths picking up linux openvrml-config instead of  
windows openvrml config.
4) compile openvrml, openvrml-gl, sdl-viewer.
5) TEST code (ARToolKit's libARvrml and simpleVRML example, which  
currently works flawlessly with openvrml-0.16.6 on Linux and Mac OS  
X). Bails out with "unrecognized error during resolution" "no  
alternative URI could be resolved".
6) TEST code using sdl-viewer.exe and relative path to .wrl file.  
Bails out with "invalid URI". Same result with absolute path.  
Put .wrl file in same folder as sdl-viewer; crashes.

At this stage, I am ready to give up on making libARvrml available on  
Windows... unless perhaps someone with more time on their hands than  
me has persisted with this and has it working.

Regards,
Phil.