Re: [hatari-devel] program autostart, visual studio Hatari compilation

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/10/2021 11.22, D C wrote:
> I normally build and run Hatari through Visual Studio since I prefer their 
> debugger (but with a custom project/solution file and not through cmake).
> I don't recall any show stoppers getting it to build.
>
> That being said, it's been a while and I remember there being a lot of 
> warnings and errors that need to be fixed such as includes for unistd.h or 
> dirent.h and related calls which don't normally exist on windows and haven't 
> been wrapped with ifdefs or converted to the windows equivalents.
> There are also some issues that need fixing if you're building with unicode 
> support as well.

FWIW, we're testing building with Visual Studio in the CI nowadays and it's 
building fine there:

 https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5235837156720640

So you could use the build script from the CI as instructions how to 
recreate that build on your own:

 https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/tree/.cirrus.yml#n96

HTH,
 Thomas


> It's definitely simpler to just build using cmake and mingw unless you want 
> to spend some time going through all the errors and warnings.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Paweł Góralski <pgoralski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Sunday, 24 October 2021 9:56 PM
> *To:* hatari-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <hatari-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* [hatari-devel] program autostart, visual studio Hatari compilation
> Secondly, anyone has any successes with building Hatari with Visual
> Studio and CMake (VS2019 should have c99 support as far I know)? Any
> show stoppers before I dive in? On first glance SDL2 and other
> dependencies prebuild dependencies should be setup (without pkg-config)
> along with VS2019 custom flags.
>
> Regards,
> Pawel Goralski