Notes for building EmptyEpsilon with MSDEV 2015 Community

Assumes that <root> = c:\src\github\EmptyEpsilon, and that the solution directory is c:\src\github\EmptyEpsilon\EmptyEpsilonMSDEV2015

These are the steps that I went through to build a project for EmptyEpsilon in Visual Studio 2015 (Community)

• Check out files in <root>

  • git clone https://github.com/daid/SeriousProton.git
  • git clone https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon.git

• You should now have:

  • <root>
  • <root>/EmptyEpsilonMSDEV2015
  • <root>/EmptyEpsilon
  • <root>/SeriousProton

• Created Solution <root>\EmptyEpsilonMSDEV

  • Create C++ Project "SeriousProton"

  • Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General

    • Project Defaults -> Configuration Type -> Static Library (.lib)

  • Add Source files from <root>\SeriousProton

  • Add Source files from <root>\SeriousProton\Box2D

  • NuGet packages:

    • sfml: ( sfml-system sfml-audio sfml-network sfml-window sfml-graphics)

  • Extra CFLAGS

    • NOMINMAX (to make windows.h not include #define min and #define max)
    • _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS (should use fopen_s, fopen is deprecated)
    • PRETTY_FUNCTION=FUNCSIG

  • Add Extra Includes:

    • $(SolutionDir)..\SeriousProton\src
    • $(SolutionDir)..\dirent\include

• Created C++ Project "EmptyEpsilon"

  • Add Reference -> Project -> SeriousProton

  • NuGet packages:

    • Make sure sfml projects are added
    • OpenAL-soft

  • Extra CFLAGS:

    • NOMINMAX
    • _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
    • PRETTY_FUNCTION=FUNCSIG

  • Add Extra Includes:

    • $(SolutionDir)..\SeriousProton\src
    • $(SolutionDir)..\EmptyEpsilon\src

C++ Template Notes:

Visual C++ (as of 2015 version) has a "bug" w.r.t template instantiation vs. gcc. The gcc compiler will instantiate template specializations at link time as long as they are defined in any translation unit. VC++ will only instantiate a specialization if it occurs in the same translation unit (.obj).

I have moved the template specializations into '.hpp' files which are included in the .h file for VC++ and in the .cpp file for gcc.

Issues

• I have not done much testing -- it compiles, it runs on one system.
  I haven't tested the networking code
• There are thousands of warnings, mostly related to size_t being __uint64 and many things assuming that it's an int.