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Unable to get past 3rd step from the CMake/Visual Studio Building Instructions page. #79

Closed ziv-y closed 3 years ago

ziv-y commented 3 years ago

This is my first time trying to compile anything from source code, and i am trying to follow the build instructions page and clicking generate causes an error message to appear:

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find SDL2 (missing: SDL2_LIBRARY SDL2_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  cmake/FindSDL2.cmake:171 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:82 (find_package)

I'm quite new to GitHub so I apologise if I'm doing anything wrong, just wanted a bit of help ^^

Corbachu commented 3 years ago

Hey! No worries! Glad to see some interest here :) also I apologize those instructions need massive updating... so, assuming we are running Windows and at least MSVC 2015: Do you by chance run CMake against the project to generate the MSVC solution? For this I like to use the CMake-GUI and vcpkg, which allows me to point SDL2 to the dynamic lib, and the rest to static libs via the vcpkg installed libraries. If not using vcpkg (pre-built or otherwise), then you simply need to point to the SDL2 directories/runtimes (and all the other libraries required).

Corbachu commented 3 years ago

Feel free to post whatever you have and I’ll help, eventually we will get this compiled! And then I can take some time to update the instructions 😂😂😊

ziv-y commented 3 years ago

I'm afraid I don't know what I'm doing 😅 I just open CMake-gui and set the source location, and click generate as the guide says

ziv-y commented 3 years ago

I've been trying to figure out what to do for the past hour, it's hard because I know essentially nothing about coding, I just wanna use this source port 😅 What would be the easiest way to go about all of this? Also, I apologise if I don't understand something, I'm quite new to this sort of stuff 😓

Corbachu commented 3 years ago

You don’t want to use any of the development or compiled builds so far?

What errors are you getting now? Screenshot of your config would help too

ziv-y commented 3 years ago

Oh- I didn't realise that there were pre-compiled builds '^^ I'll use those, I'm sorry for wasting your time

Corbachu commented 3 years ago

Eventually we will get to a place where it’ll be a snap to compile EDGE for any platform; for now I will close the issue.