How to build on Windows? (Version 3.x)

[Dr. MefistO]

Hi!
Is there is any really working instruction of how-to-build WinUAE for Visual Studio?

I want to improve debug-features, but I can't compile it.

P.S. Why do you open sources that cannot be compiled by anyone except devs!?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Dr. MefistO

Hi!
Is there is any really working instruction of how-to-build WinUAE for Visual Studio?

I want to improve debug-features, but I can't compile it.

You didn't say what goes wrong but I assume you miss most dependencies, just download http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuaeinclibs.zip if you are not interested in downloading them manually from official sites.

P.S. Why do you open sources that cannot be compiled by anyone except devs!?

Huh? Try compiling for example QEMU for Windows first

[Dr. MefistO]

Really, with winuaeinclibs.zip, with aros.rom.cpp (googl'it), and some help from http://anutom.blogspot.com/2010/06/c...inuae-210.html I was able to compile it! Not so hard.

But it was only for release version. So many changes to project settings are required to compile a debug version.

[Toni Wilen]

debug vs release shouldn't need anything interesting. Do you use correct project files? There are lots of obsolete project files remaining for older visual studio versions.. winuae_msvc11 is the only up to date.

EDIT: ah, "real" Debug isn't working. Use "Test", it is nearly same but less slow.

[Nekoniaow]

Originally Posted by Dr. MefistO

Really, with winuaeinclibs.zip, with aros.rom.cpp (googl'it), and some help from http://anutom.blogspot.com/2010/06/c...inuae-210.html I was able to compile it! Not so hard.

But it was only for release version. So many changes to project settings are required to compile a debug version.

Hey, that's free, and ... open source.
The motto is "if you miss it, add it".

Toni is alone working on the monster and probably has millions of neuronally hardcoded routines built into his brain, tuning him perfectly to the build pipeline of WinUAE so that he might not even notice that kind of issues. His most important issues are emulation related, not building-UAE related.

You, on the contrary have fresh eyes, untrained yet neural networks and free access to the source so you will see things he doesn't and ... can change them.

[Dr. MefistO]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

EDIT: ah, "real" Debug isn't working. Use "Test", it is nearly same but less slow.

Ok, I will.

Now I want to try to add a SegTracker functionality of FS-UAE (chris-devel mod). And, if it will success, I will try to rewrite a debugger (it awful now, sorry ).

[Dr. MefistO]

Test config:

Error 929 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol @prowizard_search@8 referenced in function "void __fastcall moduleripper(void)" (?moduleripper@@YIXXZ) d:\amiga\WinUAE\od-win32\winuae_msvc11\moduleripper.obj winuae

[Toni Wilen]

I don't know how that can happen if you have prowizard.lib that comes with zip package.

"Debug" project is now fixed in github.

[Dr. MefistO]

So, lets fix it totally:
1) copy winuaeinclibs.zip/include to /include;
2) copy winuaeinclibs.zip/lib folder to /od-win32/.

Now the first error:
1) About hq2-obj files. It can be fixed with post build events with nasm (http://anutom.blogspot.com/2010/06/c...inuae-210.html) for all configurations;
2) zip.h file cannot be found without proper changes to include paths for all configurations. Is it normal?

Could you fix and upload that changes to git?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Dr. MefistO

So, lets fix it totally:
1) copy winuaeinclibs.zip/include to /include;
2) copy winuaeinclibs.zip/lib folder to /od-win32/.

Don't. Unpack them to somewhere else and add paths to visual studio's include and lib paths.

About hq2-obj files. It can be fixed with post build events

I'll put those to zip. They only need to be compiled once anyway, they never change.

[Dr. MefistO]

add paths to visual studio's include and lib paths.

Could you add some default folders for that to projects?

Another problem: projects dependencies (for all configurations). It will be great to add them to every project as it wrote in anutom's tutorial. So, after that I'll just press build for whole solution and it will generate winuae.exe for me. Could you fix that?

2) zip.h file cannot be found without proper changes to include paths for all configurations. Is it normal?

Path is: /archivers/zip/

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Dr. MefistO

Could you add some default folders for that to projects?

No. Those files are shared with my other projects, they are not 100% winuae specific. (Path gets saved in profile specific msvc file, you are not going to lose it when updating winuae)

Another problem: projects dependencies (for all configurations). It will be great to add them to every project as it wrote in anutom's tutorial. So, after that I'll just press build for whole solution and it will generate winuae.exe for me. Could you fix that?

It is by design. I don't want to recompile them each time some header file or some other dependency changes. It is useless to recompile them, resulting files would be identical. Just compile them once and forget about them.

I'll guarantee you would have switched dependencies off after working with winuae more than a week..

Path is: /archivers/zip/

I can't check this until later today.

[Dr. MefistO]

So what about zip?)

[Toni Wilen]

Sorry, forgot.. Missing file added to winuaeinclibs.zip

[SparkyNZ]

I'm getting the following error:

'fenv.h': No such file or directory

Can somebody please tell me what I'm missing?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by SparkyNZ

I'm getting the following error:

'fenv.h': No such file or directory

Can somebody please tell me what I'm missing?

Not enough information but probable reason is too old (or not updated) visual studio. fenv.h only comes with 2013 and later.

[SparkyNZ]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Not enough information but probable reason is too old (or not updated) visual studio. fenv.h only comes with 2013 and later.

That makes sense. I'm trying to build with vs 2010. Hopefully not too much making use of 2013 specific functions. Thanks

[SparkyNZ]

I have finally gotten round to giving this another try with VS2013.. I'm now getting the following error and I can't find "chipmemory" anywhere. Can you please tell me what I'm missing this time?

'chipmemory' : undeclared identifier

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by SparkyNZ

I have finally gotten round to giving this another try with VS2013.. I'm now getting the following error and I can't find "chipmemory" anywhere. Can you please tell me what I'm missing this time?

'chipmemory' : undeclared identifier

Did you load correct project? (winuae_msvc11) Source tree still has old projects files.

[SparkyNZ]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Did you load correct project? (winuae_msvc11) Source tree still has old projects files.

My mistake. I saw VS2013 was v12 so I thought the v11 folder was the older folder. I can compile now - just cannot link because there is no hq2x16.obj. Do I need to manually assemble this to create the .obj file with masm or something?

Thanks again.