How to use Cmake on Windows to build Chipmunk?

[xlrustylx]

Hello,

I use Code::Blocks as my IDE and my compiler (MinGW) just won't compile Chipmunk when I load the .vcproj into Code::Blocks. Way too many errors. I prefer using the console to compile libraries but it seems that Cmake will not build the make files for Chipmunk. Does anyone have any prior experience in this? Or will I just have to buckle and install Visual C++? (Which I want to avoid because I don't like platform specific IDEs)

Thank you

[slembcke]

What breaks about it? Somebody else contributed the CMake files to Chipmunk, so I'm not exactly an expert. :-\

Is it failing to generate the makefiles or just defaulting to making a .vcproj (on Windows)? You could try cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" if that is the case. It also has a code blocks project generator you could try. cmake -G "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles"

Chipmunk should be pretty easy to compile even without a makefile if you are familiar with GCC on the command line. This works for me on OS X to build a static lib:

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gcc -std=gnu99 -ffast-math src/*.c src/constraints/*.c -Iinclude/chipmunk -c
ar rcs chipmunk.a *.o

Add -O3 and -DNDEBUG to make a release build. Then all you need is the static lib and the folder full of headers.

[xlrustylx]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\AMD Test Machine>cd c:\chipmunk

c:\chipmunk>cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles"
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/MinGW/bin/g++.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/MinGW/bin/g++.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set
to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake file
s:
GLUT_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
used as include directory in directory C:/chipmunk/Demo

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

c:\chipmunk>



Above is the error I get when trying to compile MinGW make files. I prefer MinGW because I can compile it that way and add it to my MinGW compiler and Code::Blocks. I can remove the variable it speaks of, but mingw32-make ultimately fails when building.

[xlrustylx]

What breaks about it? Somebody else contributed the CMake files to Chipmunk, so I'm not exactly an expert. :-\

Is it failing to generate the makefiles or just defaulting to making a .vcproj (on Windows)? You could try cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" if that is the case. It also has a code blocks project generator you could try. cmake -G "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles"

Chipmunk should be pretty easy to compile even without a makefile if you are familiar with GCC on the command line. This works for me on OS X to build a static lib:

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gcc -std=gnu99 -ffast-math src/*.c src/constraints/*.c -Iinclude/chipmunk -c
ar rcs chipmunk.a *.o

Add -O3 and -DNDEBUG to make a release build. Then all you need is the static lib and the folder full of headers.

I tried the code and it failed. Failed as hard as the documentation for this software

[slembcke]

You can either install GLUT or disable compiling the demo app.

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cmake -D BUILD_DEMOS=OFF .

I tried the code and it failed. Failed as hard as the documentation for this software

Should I be insulted? What I said was here are some instructions for a completely different system. The point was that it gave you something to work from if you had experience working with GCC. If building software was as easy as a 2 line shell script there wouldn't be so many portable build tools in existence...

[xlrustylx]

Haha, no, you shouldn't be offended. I didn't expect the code to work because it was for MacOSX. Yeah, I tried turning the demo build off and then doing it, it worked beautifully. Installed to my program files though? No problem, I put the files where they needed to be and now I can call Chipmunk functions

Thank you for your help.

Please don't think I'm ungrateful. I'm just giving you a hard time. I'm learning more and more C++ from actually building games using open source libraries provided by great people like you. Any problems I have are due to my own ignorance rather than the fault of code or another person.