A beginners guide to using CS with OpenSource tools

[dirkk]

This is a very rough starter for possible CS users.

I had a look at CS some time ago, and AFAIR the old distributions had pre-compiled .EXEs in it. Since they are gone now, I thought it might be a good idea to have a guide to get the walktest demo compiled.

It all boils down to download several packages, install them in the right order, and compile.


1. download the most recent CrystalSpace from here. At this time of writing it is the version cs098 which is here.
2. unzip this archive. There is a 'cs' folder in it - put it into C:\cs (or whatever path you like).
3. download MingW and MSYS from here. These packages are typically called `MinGW-3.?.?-?.exe' and `MSYS-1.?.?.exe', where the question marks stand for the actual version numbers.
4. install the MinGW compiler at `C:\mingw32'.
5. Install MSYS. At the prompts answer 'y' twice and `C:\mingw32' when prompted for the path.
6. download the latest windows support file from here.
7. Run it. In the 'Select Components' dialog, every option is checked.
  - in 'Win32 libraries' uncheck 'MSVC-only libraries' and 'Cygwin-only libraries'
  - in 'Support for development environments' uncheck 'Visual 6 and 7' and 'Cygwin'
  (this only applies if you really don't work with VC or Cygwin, obviously)
  Leave all other options as they are during installation.
8. Start MSYS, there should be an icon on your desktop. On the command prompt, enter the following three lines
   'cd C:\cs'
   './configure'
   'make -k all'
9. Wait. Wait more.
10. Enter 'walktest -relight'. You are there: take a walk in the demo level.
 
 
Some remarks:
  - I post this here because the community server is down.
  - I will try to do this for Mac OSX, too (following this link).
- For a more elaborate approach visit the page I had most of this information from (Thanks, Eric Sunshine!)

@moderator: if this post doesn't belong here, then delete or move it at will.

[Keen]

Sounds great, why not create an article in Crystal Community?

[dingobloo]

As he said the server went down, but luckily thebolt was quick to remedy this, you should be able to submit this tutorial now!

[dirkk]

ok, I'll give it a try!

[dingobloo]

I made some minor changes like adding a link to the CVS version of win32 libs and tutorial incase they wanted that, and moved something into the header. It is now approved and can be seen on the articles page. i also changed it from "Make -k all" to "jam" because CS doesnt use the make system, make just calls jam in CS anyway. also i changed it so that it's using the new renderer because it's now default, best to get people to use it.

[[SOM]Roberto]

I maked the first step as: "configure". /The msys emulated console worked about 2 hours.../

When I wrote the second step "make -k all" msys wrote this:
make: *** No rule to make target `all'.

When I wrote the second step "make" msys wrote this:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

What is the problem in new stable developing?



/I want use the ms visual c++./

[SOM]Roberto

[sunshine]

We would need to see the output of your 'configure' run, but at a guess, I would say that it failed to generate the Makefile. To find out why it failed to create Makefile, you would need to post the relevant portion of config.log.

As for Visual C++, you can now download MSVC8 Express version for free.

[[SOM]Roberto]

Thx.
I try to compile the CS. )))

[[SOM]Roberto]

-I try compiled CS with Visual c++. "libcrystal.a not found..."
-When I compiled CS with msys wrong again.
Any compiling not possible in windows for CS...

The INSTALL said that: "Download and install the cs-win32libs"
Which directory I can installed all packages exactly?
for example c:\CS and cs-win libs c:\CS\libs\

Linux compiled is perfetctly but windows is difficult. (

[obi_1]

-I try compiled CS with Visual c++. "libcrystal.a not found..."

libcrystalspace.a? with visual?

-When I compiled CS with msys wrong again.
Any compiling not possible in windows for CS...

not true

The INSTALL said that: "Download and install the cs-win32libs"
Which directory I can installed all packages exactly?
for example c:\CS and cs-win libs c:\CS\libs\

c:\CS\ c:\cs-win-libs for example

[[SOM]Roberto]

I like mingw with Code::blocks.
I try complilng msys again, and I will write the error log...

[sunshine]

Install cs-win32libs in its own directory (except when it asks for the location of your CS source directory, in which case tell it the correct location).

Which version of CS are you building? There is no, and never has been, a libcrystal.a. In the 0.99 version of CS, there is a libcrystalspace.a, and in the 0.98 version, there were libraries such as libcsutil.a, libcsgeom.a, etc.

[[SOM]Roberto]

1 CS: 0.99r 2005-09-03
2 MinGW 5.0.0                     
3 MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1
4 cs-win32libs-0.99r0_015

mingw and msys: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435
CS and winlibs: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=649

I try compiled again.
If compililing wrong again, I linking the msys console log and config log in http://rafb.net/paste/

[[SOM]Roberto]

Okay. Compile going on...
I waiting the end.