Development Debugging Environment - Setup Help

[nohal]

Just follow the instructions, download the source, build, done.

[transmitterdan]

Hans,

What Visual Studio version are you using?

[hasse_A]

Originally Posted by transmitterdan

Hans,

What Visual Studio version are you using?

I am planing use VS 2017. Is this good or should I go for VS 2019.
Previously I have used 2015. OS = Win7.

/Hans

[Hakan]

Hasse..
I have used the 7z as of below copy and decompressed it direct to C:\
Then followed Pavel's description how to built it for release and debug. Also remember to update environment variables accordingly.

Håkan

Source Files and Documentation.
If you intend to build wxWidgets from sources (which is recommended), please do NOT download the files using the "Source code" links just above, which are automatically generated by GitHub and don't contain the submodules sources which are necessary for building wxWidgets.
Instead, download one of wxWidgets-3.1.2.zip or wxWidgets-3.1.2.7z, for much smaller size, for Microsoft Windows systems or wxWidgets-3.1.2.tar.bz2 for Unix ones, including macOS. These archives have exactly the same contents, but use the line endings appropriate for the corresponding platform.

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by hasse_A

I am planing use VS 2017. Is this good or should I go for VS 2019.
Previously I have used 2015. OS = Win7.

/Hans

Hans,

You can use VS 2017 and it will work. I am willing to help you set up a build environment in Windows. Send me a private message and we can talk about it so I understand what you want to do.

[ewzachmann]

Trying to build in linux mint 18.3


getting this error on make:



/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwx_gtk2u_webview-3.0


any (helpful) advice?


Thanks.

[ewzachmann]

eric@eric-OptiPlex-960 ~/OpenCPN/build $ wx-config --cxxflags --libs
-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I/usr/include/wx-3.0 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXGTK__ -pthread
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -pthread -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_baseu_net-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 s

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by ewzachmann

Trying to build in linux mint 18.3


getting this error on make:



/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwx_gtk2u_webview-3.0


any (helpful) advice?


Thanks.

What happens if you do this:

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk-webview3.0

[ewzachmann]

Doh! Did not even try the obvious thing. That was it...thanks.

[ewzachmann]

cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" ../

...

CMake Warning in CMakeLists.txt:
The build directory is a subdirectory of the source directory.

This is not supported well by Eclipse. It is strongly recommended to use a
build directory which is a sibling of the source directory.


-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/eric/OpenCPN/build


And for the life of me I can't get it into eclipse, building and running...are there some more detailed instructions on how to do this available?

Thanks

[Dirk K.]

Hello developers,


I would be interested, how you set the wxWidgets_ROOT_DIR path/variable during the OpenCPN build or later in Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10.


I set it in the X86 terminal, the build completed successfully, but the Visual Studio the debugger is not able to find files in the ...\Sources\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll directory.


Thanks a lot

[Dirk K.]

... found it myself. You have to set relative path in the environment variables. Absolute path are not working.

[transmitterdan]

Dirk,

There may be other things you have to do for successful debugging with VS2017. For example, the plugins don’t automatically get copied to the right folder. Be sure you know what folders O is using for things like plugins and data files.

When VS starts the debug version, the local directory is the debug folder, not the build folder. That’s why your wxWidgets path doesn’t work. But even then you will have difficulty because O does not supply debug versions of wxWidgets libraries so debugging will be severely hampered.

[rgleason]

Trying to build Windows and after



cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -T v141_xp ..

- *** Added plugin: C:/Users/Rick/Documents/GitHub/OpenCPN/plugins/dashboard_pi
-- *** Staging to build grib_pi ***
-- Could NOT find JPEG (missing: JPEG_LIBRARY JPEG_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- Could NOT find Jasper (missing: JASPER_LIBRARIES JASPER_INCLUDE_DIR JPEG_LIBRARIES)
-- Using bundled jasper library...
-- *** Added plugin: C:/Users/Rick/Documents/GitHub/OpenCPN/plugins/grib_pi
-- Build type: Release

Where might I find these libraries? How to include? Or do I need them?

Also after building and I try to run debug mode I get "missing archive.dll and missing expat" etc.

These files exist in buildwin, but I reinstalled the opencpn buildwin 4.99 package and I have put in an additional path to buildwin, and still get these messages.


Should I just start over with a new git clone?

[rgleason]

It builds release and debug versions from the command line without errors.
So it must be something I am not doing properly in MS Visual Studio.