Blocks3D/buildingfirsttime.md

Building Setup

G3D is super delicate, meaning that you have to go about building in a special way

1. Install Visual Studio 2005. This link here is a web installer, but it works.

2. Download and install G3D from this link here.

3. Make sure G3D is included under your build directories by going under Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories and check and see if

• g3d-6_10\bin is under executable files

• g3d-6_10\include is under include files

• g3d-6_10\bin is under executable files

• g3d-6_10\win32-vc8-lib is under library files

• Ex: C:\libraries\g3d-6_10\bin

4. Download SDL version 1.2.7 from this link

5. Extract the file to a folder on your computer. Keep note of this folder.

6. Include the extracted files by going to Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories and adding the following links:

• Include files - extractpath`include`

• Library files - extractpath`lib`

• Ex: C:\libraries\SDL-1.2.7\bin

(The steps 7-11 are optional if you have installed Visual Studio Professional. If you used the link above, you are using express, but check step 9 if it doesn't work)

7. Download and install the platform SDK.

8. Put the platform SDK into your directories (Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories) by replacing all mentions of $(VCInstallDir)PlatformSDK with the actual path. Ex: $(VCInstallDir)PlatformSDK\include -> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include

9. Right click Source files -> Dialogs.rc -> View Code

10. Edit line 10 to say

#include "WinResrc.h"
#define IDC_STATIC  -1

instead of

#include "afxres.h"

11. Right click the project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Input, and add AdvAPI32.lib under Additional Dependencies.

(Continue back here if you're skipping steps 7-11)

12. Right click the project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> General, and make sure Additional Library Directories is blank.

13. Try building using Build -> Build G3DTest.

Error stuff

c:\libraries\g3d-6_10\include\G3D/platform.h(235) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory -> Download and install platform SDK (lines 7-8)

G3D-debug.lib(RegistryUtil.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__RegCloseKey@4 referenced in function "public: static bool __cdecl G3D::RegistryUtil::keyExists(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &)" (?keyExists@RegistryUtil@G3D@@SA_NABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z) -> Add AdvAPI32.lib under Additional Dependencies (step 11)

.\Dialogs.rc(10) : fatal error RC1015: cannot open include file 'afxres.h'. -> Perform steps 9-10

Enjoy!