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On 07/14/2011 09:37 PM, Menno van der Woude wrote:

Hi all,

since I would like to build an altered version of pix_drum (http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/archives/731) I am trying to build Gem on Windows 7.

btw, the original version of [pix_drum] is included in Gem-SVN (but there are not binaries yet)

I am running Windows 7 ultimate x64, using MS Visual Studio 2010 C++ Express to try and compile.

good luck.

So far I had been using Linux to develop pix_drum. I have succesfully built the object in Ubuntu 11.04 x64 (had to adjust some headers cause 11.04 does no longer come with V4L1 in the kernel)

this is fixed in Gem-trunk and the Gem/branch/0.92 (SVN), though it hasn't made it into a release yet.

In Linux I used ./configure and make to build Gem

which is the standard way to build Gem

(mostly cause I do not know how to do it using Codeblocks)

which i do neither.

Is it normal for compilation on Windows to be really a lot more troublesome than in Linux?

yes.

Or am I maybe just using the wrong ide/compiler for this?

well i'm still using vs2003 to compile Gem (once i do). the setup to get it running on w32 process is so painful that i'm very hesitant to change anything.

So far I have tried this:

• downloaded sources: Gem, Pd, tiff, jpeg, ftgl, freetype

tiff/jpeg/ftgl/freetype should come in the GemLibs package (iirc)

• changed some header filenames
• installed quicktime sdk and windows sdk
• built static libs (using both nmake and msvs2010c++)
• converted win-vs2003 project from Gem source tar to vs2010c++
• changed include and linker directories
• removed from the project all files with DS in their name

i think it would have been enought to change the HAVE_DIRECTSHOW define in Base/configWindows.h (or the project settings)

(pix_DSvideo, DSgrabber, etc) cause they gave me errors I could not handle: 1>....\src\Pixes\DSgrabber.cpp(13): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'streams.h': No such file or directory

obviously you are missing some header files of the DirectX-SDK (whereever that is included)

After removing them there remain a lot of warnings, which is fine, however I am stuck with this error: 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'strmbasD.lib'

This all would appear to have something to do with the way DirectShow (and PlatformSDK?) is now embedded in the Windows SDK, however, I

you need to have "all of them" installed and i keep NOT tracking how microsoft is changing their SDK packaging all over every year, so i don't know how many GB of SDKs you need to download in 2011.

cannot find details on this explaining me how to proceed... Any help is appreciated. Or if it's best I will return to using Ubuntu and install that on the system I wish to test...

this depends on what you want. being a linux guy, i would say it's definitely "best" to use linux, regardless of Gem or whatelse. being a linux developer, i can only say that for me it is definitely way more easy to setup a debian box from scratch than to get the w32 compilation running :-)

fgmadr IOhannes