Build with VisualStudio.Net 2003 IDE

[kaz_i]

I am trying to build U3D sample application using VisualStudio.NET 2003 IDE.
I am following steps in the documentation, but when I execute step 4 in Build Procedure,
I get error message "no global settings available."
What is wrong? How can I solve this?

[Roman Borisov]

Hello,

Before Build Procedure doing you should do Setup Procedure.
Namely I think you have problem with U3D_SOURCE environment variable.
Please check the step 3 of Setup Procedure. "Create a new user environment variable called U3D_SOURCE. Set it to the location of the U3D Source folder.
Make sure to specify the complete path including the root and drive letter, as well as terminating the path with a trailing backslash. For example, C:\SDK\U3D\Source\.
The path specified should NOT contain any spaces due to the current build system scripts"

Thanks,
Roman

[kaz_i]

I have set U3D_SOURCE environment, but I have found '\' was missing after "Source".
So, "C:\SDK\U3D\Source" wasn't OK, but it should be "C:\SDK\U3D\Source\".
Thank you very much.

[Kai K.]

Hello, I have problems to generate the VC7 projects files too:

c:\U3D_A_061228_5\Source\Tools\BuildSystem>vs7_convert.bat

501 Protocol scheme 'c' is not supported C:/U3D_A_061228_5/Source/Config/Options/CompileDebugWithMSExt
Handler couldn't resolve external entity at line 162, column 8, byte 4444
error in processing external entity reference at line 162, column 8, byte 4444 at C:/Perl/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
cp: projects.ini: No such file or directory
can not open ../../Config/projects.ini file at util.pm line 50.

Why do I miss that ini file? I looked at the ZIP and it is not included.

[Guido Ranzuglia]

Hello, I have a problem generating the VS projects files, after running the vs7_convert I obtained a "ERROR, don,t set path to "...\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools". Could someone help me? Thanks

[Umair Amin]

When I try to make a visual studio solution using cygwin minimal package I get the following error

"'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."

Could you please help?Do I need to have perl installed?

[Michail Vidiassov]

Yes, you do.

With XML-Simple and  XML-Parser packages.

Did you read "For Compiling Universal 3D Dynamic Libraries on Windows"
part of the U3D.chm manual?

[Umair Amin]

Thanks for your reply.The problem is solved.
Here is what I was doing wrong.

I was using cygwin minimal package and previously had it placed on my desktop.I ran the install script but it did not work properly.So I moved it to C:\ and then ran the cygwinwithvisualstudio without runninh the install script again.

When I ran the install script from C:\cygwin and then cygwinwithvisualstudio and the rest of the steps the vs solution was produced

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Umair,

can you please put the resulting visual studio project files somewhere on the net
or send them to me directly by mail (master at iaas.msu.ru)?
Or an archive of the whole build tree.

My Windows programming skills are few and it'd  be nice to have something to compare with.

BTW, since the development is frozen, it seems reasonable to publish the project files
for the public good, since AFAIK cygwin and perl are only necessary to produce them.

            Sincerely, Michail