I have little problems with the following approach to using makefile based projects within the MS Visual C++ IDE. In fact it makes project management very convenient.
- Ensure you have a working makefile for a project (such as a skeleton
project) that works from the command line. 2. Open the makefile as a workspace in MS Visual C++ (File, Open Workspace). Specify files of Type 'makefile' with File name '*' to ensure makefiles without extensions can be chosen (as occurs in PD). You can compile your project as is without any sourcefiles visible in the project workspace 3. Add in source files to the project workspace as appropriate.
There are different variations on this, such as creating a blank makefile based project and specifying the names of different debug and release version makefiles
John Heenan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes M Zmoelnig" zmoelnig@iem.kug.ac.at To: "jsf103" jsf103@york.ac.uk Cc: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [PD] Compiling PD externals
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, jsf103 wrote:
Sorry to add yet another tedious and over asked question to this mailing list but I really need some help. I am trying to write some pd externals and decided to start by using the tutorial example "Helloworld". BUT Visual C++ WILL NOT compile it, it simply says 'UNEXPECTED END OF FILE WHILE LOOKING FOR PRECOMPILED HEADER DIRECTIVE". I really don't know what to do, and yes I have looked through the archives and still found nothing. I just need to know how to set up Visual C++ for pd. PLEASE help me someone!!
(Mark already answered to this one) if you still have problems try getting a pd-library (for windows) that already has a vc-workspace (*.dsw) pe: zexy, iemlib
delete the source-files in your project-manager window and insert yours. and maybe you will have to edit the project-properties to export helloworld_setup instead of orglib_setup (pe: zexy_setup) i don't know right now because there is no vc right at hand.
if you want to create your own workspace be sure to insert the correct source-paths to the pd-includes (to find m_pd.h which is in pd/src) and the linker-paths to the pd-libs (pd.lib which is in pd/bin) nevertheless, you might have to edit these paths even if you use already existing workspaces to match your installation.
mfg.cdas.r IOhannes
ps: gosh, it is really time to add a "compiling??"-section to the HOWTO. please, can anyone send me instructions for alternative windows-compilers (cygwin, borland-builder,...) since i have none of these