Fully automate the build procedure on windows

[a-teammate]

As described in our wiki that although all our used libraries are covered by the create_vs_project.bat (which also does build for you) it requires to have some dependencies downloaded and installed before which could be cumbersome. Furthermore its necessary to add those dependencies to the PATH, which is not really what windows users are used to do.

The list of those dependencies is:

• git
• CMake
• Visual Studio (2015 or 2017)
• Python
• Conan
• Node.js - Doxygen

It would be cool to provide an "install_requirements.bat" which downloads them, installs them (optimally also silently) and adds them to the PATH if they are not yet available. Or at least guides the dev through installing them (e.g. already downloads them but the users needs to install them manually then).

[Croydon]

When we use git for media repository it just became an end user depedency again. We need to figure out how to ship it then again.

Also I somehow don't like that this is called "on Windows" when it just means VS on Windows :)

[Fohlen]

We will always need git in the build process.

[Croydon]

I have talked about an end user dependency..

[a-teammate]

There is only vs on Windows supported right now

And I did not write anywhere that git is an enduser dependency did I? It's used by conan. But it should be.

If we make it an enduser dependency (we could if we i.e. want to use npm in the game somewhere) there will be a solution necessary to install it in the installer. But there will be anyways a similar solution needed for nodejs

[aschaeffer]

When we use git for media repository it just became an end user depedency again. We need to figure out how to ship it then again.

In Inexor Flex we use the npm package nodegit for fetching the media repositories. With nodegit there is no need to have git installed by the end user and we don't have to ship it. See here:

NodeGit will work on most systems out-of-the-box without any native dependencies.

[Fohlen]

Git is a dependency to npm itself

Am 25.02.2017, 01:04, Andreas Schaeffer notifications@github.com schrieb:

When we use git for media repository it just became an end user depedency again.

In Inexor Flex we use the npm package nodegit. With nodegit there is no need to have git installed by the end user. See here:

NodeGit will work on most systems out-of-the-box without any native dependencies.

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[a-teammate]

@aschaeffer: nodegit is a npm package. Imo thats a bit weird, since npm uses git internally.. :D

[Croydon]

We shouldn't make npm an end user dependency, also we can ship nodegit with releases, therefore having git on the end user computers.

[Croydon]

Makes no sense for developers, sure.

[aschaeffer]

Off topic? "Build procedure" has nothing to do with "end user dependency". In fact no single comment in this issue has anything to do with the original topic. Please create a separate issue and move the discussion there.

[Fohlen]

Npm is shipped by default and we heavily rely on it for the internal modules .....

Am 13.04.2017, 10:39, Croydon notifications@github.com schrieb:

We shouldn't make npm an end user dependency, also we can ship nodegit with releases, therefore having git on the end user computers.

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[Croydon]

For Conan: we could first check if pip is installed, if not, offering the setup of pip, then check if conan is installed, if not installing conan via pip.