minetest windows builds...

[Tarmik]

Hi !

Compiling on Windows:
- This section is outdated.

Tried on vs2012, 32-bit, and yes instructions are bit out dated.
Starting from irrlicht - I needed to use irrlicht-1.8.1 , not 1.7 like readme mentions.
sql lite 3 I've also somehow hacked in.

one fix I have made to function:

bool detectMSVCBuildDir(char *c_path)
{
std::string path(c_path);
const char *ends[] = {
"bin\\RelWithDebInfo", // This line added
"bin\\Release",
"bin\\Debug",
"bin\\Build",
NULL};
return (removeStringEnd(path, ends) != "");
}

Used RelWithDebInfo - was also wondering why there are optimizations enabled, normally should not be ?

Are most of people using linux as development platform - or why so many problems with windows port ?

[rubenwardy]

Nearly all of the developers are on Linux. It's only a matter of three terminal commands there.

[philipbenr]

Yes, ruben is correct. Also, I am interested in this. I do wish to make my own windows builds, mainly to grab the latest version when I want it.

[Krock]

Well, don't notice many problems with my Windows builds since I got the correct libraries.