Re: [Wxlua-users] Re: [Wxart2d-users_dev] cmake MSVC 7 compilation woes

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

I don't understand, is there really a problem and what is the fix?

Regards,
    John Labenski

On 1/4/06, k. holwerda <kla...@nl...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>
> > Thank you thank you thank you!  You saved my hair and my monitor!
> >
> > I thought it looked an awful lot like a nodefault lib setting, but in
> > the IDE the nodefaultlib switch wasn't being set.  I guess I don't
> > really understand yet how the MSVC IDE and CMAKE interact.   I thought
> > the idea was that cmake generated some project files, and then you
> > could use those project files just like usual.  But apparently there's
> > something else going on behind the scenes.
>
> No that is not true, Cmake generates them and that is it. The switch is
> really there. (Project Settings/Link tab )
>
> >
> > I tried commenting out the line you said and then it linked like a
> > charm.   Just wish I could have my three hours back from last night...
>
> Just imagine how many days i have bin searching in my life for bugs like
> this, and you should feel happy again. ;-)
>
> >
> > As for the problem with wxLua that prompted you to add nodefaultlib in
> > the first place, that sounds like wxLua isn't being built with the
> > right CRT libraries.
>
> What in the world or CRT libraries??
>
> > And wxLua may be using the wrong CRT because lua itself was built
> > using the wrong libraries.  I seem to recall Lua being set up by
> > default to build with /MT instead of /MD.
>
> In debug mode i see:
>
> /MDd Creates a debug multithreaded DLL, using MSVCRTD.LIB
>
> But this i do not understand already, because i am not generating DLL??
> In release mode i see:
>
> /MD Creates a multithreaded DLL, using MSVCRT.LIB
> Same story, but at least it says that it needs MSVCRT.LIB, so i assume
> remove switch /nodefaultlib:"MSVCRT.lib"
>
> And looking at wxLua, i see /MDd for debug, and /MD   for all release
> builds.
> In debug mode the switch   /nodefaultlib:"MSVCRT.lib" is there if not
> DLL builds and not unicode
>
> For the moment i only set this switch when debug is ON. ( so also when
> building shared, which does not work anyway in VC6)
>
> > I could be wrong though.  This whole multiple CRT-versions business is
> > an unbelievable confusing mess on Microsoft's part.  It's seriously
> > the single worst thing about developing on Windows.
>
> I am starting to understand this too :-(
>
> Regards,
>
> Klaas
>
>
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