Visual Studio??

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GW_	(Posted 2011) [#1]

Sorry if i missed this is in the docs, but I have visual studio 2008 and particularly don't want to have to get VC express if I don't have to.

Can I use the VS 2008 compiler I already have?
I cant seem to find a target called MSbuild.exe though..

p.s. Is there no gcc option if i want to use mojo/c++ ?

marksibly

(Posted 2011) [#2]

Hi,

> Can I use the VS 2008 compiler I already have?

Nope, you'll need 2010 express.

It shouldn't interfere with existing versions - I have about 5 versions of visual this/that on my machine.

> I cant seem to find a target called MSbuild.exe though..

Do you have a directory called Microsoft.NET in C:\Windows?

> p.s. Is there no gcc option if i want to use mojo/c++ ?

Not on Windows.

GW_	(Posted 2011) [#3]

Thanks Mark,
I tried with VS2k8 but received an error.

Build FAILED.

"C:\Dev\Monkey\bananas\difference\champagne\champagne.build\glfw\vc2010\MonkeyGame.sln" (default target) (1) ->
(MonkeyGame target) -> 
  C:\Dev\Monkey\bananas\difference\champagne\champagne.build\glfw\vc2010\MonkeyGame.vcxproj(3,14): error MSB4066: The attribute "Label" in element <ItemGroup> is unrecognized.

    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:11.07
TRANS Failed to execute 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe /p:Configuration=Release MonkeyGame.sln', return code=1

I'll get VC Express and try that out.
I hope that mingw/windows is a possible option for the future.

dopeyrulz

(Posted 2011) [#4]

_GW

It's probably a .Net version thing. VS2008 is v3.5 whilst VS2010 is v4.0.

GW_	(Posted 2011) [#5]

I installed VC express 2k10 and got it working, although i feel very dirty now..

When I get time I'll take some generated sourcecode and put it in a VS8 project and see if it'll compile.
I suspect it's the generation of the '.vcxproj' file that the issue, not the generated c code.

wmaass

(Posted 2011) [#6]

FYI (you all might know this already) but I found that in order to target GLFW I had to use Strict and my Main function had to return an int, like so:

Strict
Import mojo.app
Import mojo.graphics

Function Main:Int()
	New BlueScreen
	Return 0
End

Class BlueScreen Extends App
	Method OnRender:Int()
		Cls 0,0,200
		DrawText "Hi There",200,200
		
		Return 0
	End Method
End

Canardian

(Posted 2011) [#7]

I would prefer also MinGW on Windows, because it creates faster code than VS2008 and VS2010 with the -O6 option. It also compiles much faster.

Beaker

(Posted 2011) [#8]

glfw does seem to take a long time to compile. It would be great if this could be sped up.

GW_	(Posted 2011) [#9]

I would prefer also MinGW on Windows, because it creates faster code than VS2008 and VS2010 with the -O6 option. It also compiles much faster.

It looks like the file 'trans.monkey' you can change the compiler args. But I don't if its possible to recompile that whole app.

DruggedBunny

(Posted 2011) [#10]

But I don't if its possible to recompile that whole app.

It is -- target for STDCPP and you'll get a new trans_winnt.exe or trans_macos (haven't tried the latter).

Chroma

(Posted 2011) [#11]

Bah...I can't get anything to compile except HTML5... I clicked the link in Monkey to download C++ Express and it downloaded some stupid ENA phone development garbage.... Do I actually need to download GLFW?

Do STDCPP apps have graphics or if I want graphics do I have to create a GLFW compile?

ziggy

(Posted 2011) [#12]

StdCpp is for command line tools only. The C++ with OpenGL is the GLFW. This GLFW target uses the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 compiler.