Compiling under Windows

[NaN]

Hello, first of all - you have a great piece of software here.

I compiled VDrift on Windows following: http://wiki.vdrift.net/Compiling#Windows
I'd like to propose some minor modifications.

1. There is no need for MSYS and MSYS DTK if you replace vdrift\tools\win\bin\build_vdrift.sh with a build_vdrift.bat containing

Code:

@echo off
echo.
echo --VDrift Windows compilation script--
echo.
echo Make sure you're running this from your VDrift folder, like so:
echo tools\win\bin\build_vdrift.bat

echo.
call scons release=1

echo.
echo Copying files:
xcopy /d build\vdrift.exe .
xcopy /d tools\win\dll\*.dll .

echo.
echo Make sure you check get the VDrift data!  See:
echo http://wiki.vdrift.net/Getting_the_development_version#Checking_out_the_data

2. To get the shaders compiled on my Intel GMA 4500MHD :lol:, I had to add a GLSL version define to vdrift/data/shaders/full/vertex.glsl

Code:

#version 120

Else it would throw an: 'constructor' : constructing matrix from matrix (reserved in GLSL 1.10)

[joevenzon]

I've added the #version to vertex.glsl.

About the windows compilation, are you sure you don't need msys anymore? Does mingw contain all of the needed files? If you're interested, could you try a fresh windows compile without msys and the dtk and see if it works with your bat file?

[NaN]

I hacked the bat to not to have to install msys. :lol:
I am running TDM's GCC/mingw32 Build (http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/) on my machine without msys.
My setup: Python 2.6.4, Python 2.6 Scons, TDM/MinGW
But i think it should also work with the official mingw32 build.

[joevenzon]

Gotcha. I hadn't heard about those TDM GCC releases, they're cool! Feel free to check in your batch file, make a wiki account, and make a note on the wiki about how to use the batch file if people don't want to have to install msys.