Building issues in Windows

[scemino]

@Mac1512 has several issues to build engge in Windows:

OK thank you for the clarifications. I'll have a look of the modifications and try to understand what's going on. I'll try to revert the modifications to see if it's faster on my computer.

Thanks for going back and trying, I'll do the same ...

Wow, you seem to make a lot of modifications to test my commits, I'll try to create a page about vcpkg as soon as possible.

Also thank you scemino for the speed in creating a page with the building instructions.

With vcpkg it works great :)

However, I have to create an issue, since it fails with the instructions as you have put them. I will put it as I have done it, so that there is no problem in windows. In case you estimate to change it

Edited:

I have changed a couple of things to make it work, since:

if i do this

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

when I run this line:

vcpkg install sfml:x64-windows freetype:x64-windows glew:x64-windows sdl2:x64-windows glm:x64-windows

will fail in openalsoft, stopping the process:

Then, instead of executing the git clone command, I download the latest stable version of vcpkg, in the address bar of the internet browser I put the following:

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/archive/2020.11-1.zip

then I change this:

cd vcpkg ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh ./vcpkg integrate install

For this:

cd vcpkg bootstrap-vcpkg.bat vcpkg integrate install

I run this:

vcpkg install sfml:x64-windows freetype:x64-windows glew:x64-windows sdl2:x64-windows glm:x64-windows

Clones the repo:

git clone https://github.com/scemino/engge.git

and clones the repo:

git clone https://github.com/scemino/EnggeFramework.git

I copy the content of the EnggeFramework repository to engge/extlibs/ngf

and I do the rest of the instructions.

Tomorrow I will detail it a little better, in case someone who uses windows wants to compile it.

Originally posted by @Mac1512 in https://github.com/scemino/engge/issues/242#issuecomment-777116391

[scemino]

I see that you have this error:

please ensure you're using the latest portfiles with .\vcpkg update

I had several issues myself to build on Windows, I remember several things in Visual studio installer (or go to the menu Tools > Get tools and Features... in Visual Studio)

• select the Language packs tab, and be sure you have the English version installed
• select the Individual components tab, you need to check
  • [x] Windows 10 SDK kit
  • [x] CMake tools for Windows
  • [x] MSVC v142 - VS2019 C++ x64/x86 Build tools (latest version)

After this, vcpkg should work correctly, if not can you make a screenshot of your Individual components options.

You don't need to do this:

and clones the repo:

git clone https://github.com/scemino/EnggeFramework.git

I copy the content of the EnggeFramework repository to engge/extlibs/ngf

I made a mistake in the building page, I forgot the --recurse-submodules option. You can type this: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/scemino/engge.git And it will clone the repo and also the submodules.

[Mac1512]

Thank you very much for the indications, now it has worked perfectly :)