Update on the Build saga.
- I got Freeciv 2.3 to build using MinGW/MSys.
- I got CMake to create makefiles for Visual studio which would enter into the compile step
- I discovered the code makes use of non C99 ideas like empty structs which have undefined behavior, and technically are illegal under rules for C. GCC allows it.
- The 2.3 code uses Assembler to inititialize structures. It is not clear the rational for this, since it can easily be done in C.
- Someone fixed the assembler code in shared.c and shared.h, and so 2.4 looks cleaner. Examining the code, there has been a raft of changes, so writing code for the stable 2.3 release may not have as much transfer ability to the current tree.
- Attempting the CMakes for 2.4, It appears the current checkin source does not match the distributed 2.4 Beta. For example, the python code in common\generate_packets.py up on the svn branches tree for 2_4 does not match the distributed gz file. in the SVN tree client expects packhand_gen.h, but the py script in common generates packages_gen.h, and worse, the two files gen files appear to be radically different.
- Swell. Attempting to built vanilla distributed 2.4 beta gz file.
I will be happy when I am so over getting this puppy to compile for visual studio.
Steps to get a 2.4 tree to compile[]
- copy cMakeLists to
- common, client/luascript client, client/gtk 2... client agents... and so on
- copy rc2c.sed script to gtk-gui2.0
- find in files, all inline to INLINE (there is a forceinline in msvc, though it is suspicious the number of cases where the developer is saying they are smarter than the compiler.
- client struct is declared with as empty- doesn't look like they are doing any fancy override or trying to do a C++ type thing, so just put in in dummy value to these- "int __DummyNoEmptyStructs"
- add to Studio includes path: (View.Other Windows.Property Manager.Debug|Win32.Microsoft_cpp Compiler.Include Directories:
- postpend to list: c:\MinGW\include;C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.6.2\include
Then maybe I can get some real work done.