[vos-d] Finally got ter'angreal 0.24 running on windows

[Peter Amstutz]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:14:11AM -0800, Ken Taylor wrote:
> ... But not without some ugly hacks :P  I figure clean cross-platform
> building can be worked out by those with more experience in the area than
> I -- I just wanted something to mess around with for the time being!

Great to hear!

> - A recent update to the bzr branch caused a broken build due to
> httpclient.cc not being able to find sys/socket.h or netinet/in.h, so I
> removed it from my vos/libs/vos/extensions/http/Makefile.am for the moment.
> A simple make -k didn't work because of a bug in automake on windows (
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00698.html )

That was just a quick hack so I wasn't thinking about cross platform 
issues, but unfortunately the Windows socket headers are different from 
the Unix ones.  The correct solution is something like:

#ifdef WIN32
#include <winsock2.h>
#else
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#endif

> - After building everything, I manually edited the libtool script and set
> deplibs_check_method="pass_all" (which is set in 3 locations for some
> reason), then went back and re-made csplugin. Yay, it made a dll for me :P
>
> - I renamed vos/inplace/lib/crystalspace/libvos_csplugin.csplugin to
> libvos_csplugin-0.csplugin

I just acquired a new (old) computer that I'm going to set up with 
Windows XP.  I want to set up a continuous build so we can catch some of 
these cross platform issues earlier.

> - I modified vos/inplace/etc/crystalspace/vfs.cfg to use paths from windows
> root instead of the msys root "/c/..." (I had to do this for 0.23 as well)

Hmm, okay.  Did the installer distribution do this?  I don't remember.

> - This is all in addition to the changes I made earlier, modifying
> vos/apps/tests/Makefile.am to set "sqltest = " and
> vos/libs/vos/vutil/strftime_r.cc to #if out the env functions.
> 
> So now wxterangreal runs! I'm still having the same keyboard-input problem I
> was having when I tried to build my own wxgl.dll in 0.23, but mouse-input
> seems to work fine. I'll have to look closer at how that gets built I guess.

I don't know what's going on with the keyboard problem -- you may have 
to dig into the interaction between the Windows event loop and 
WxWidgets.  Does the "wxtest" app in the Crystalspace directory build 
and work, and does that get keyboard input?  It's also possible there's 
a bug in the translation from the wxwidgets event to the Crystal Space 
event, although if that were the case the rest of the UI would work fine 
and only the 3D panel would have keyboard input trouble (unless there's 
also a focus management problem).  That's all speculation, though.

I should mention that OS X has a similar problem with it not getting 
keyboard input.  However, I think we tracked that down to an issue with 
the fact that OS X required applications jump through some additional 
hoops to be properly initialized.  I haven't got things completely 
sorted out on OS X, though.

My plans for s5 are to do parallel development for each platform as much 
as possible, with regular, automated builds on each of Windows, OS X and 
Linux.

> Also, I'm still having trouble logging in to the default world
> vip://interreality.org/world -- but I'm having this problem on 0.23 too.

This seems to be a server side problem -- I believe there is a deadlock 
happening somewhere, because the VIP connection thread is accepting 
connections, but the site isn't responding.  I'm want to to see if I can 
attach to it with a debugger and determine what is going on.

-- 
[   Peter Amstutz  ][ tetron at interreality.org ][ peter.amstutz at gdit.com ]
[Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet]
[ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ]
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