[Mesa-dev] Building Mesa for Windows using Visual Studio

[Shervin Sharifi]

Thank you for useful information.
I was able to build Mesa with VS 2013 with a similar scheme with scons.

Thanks,
   Shervin


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3 April 2015 at 14:43, Predut, Marius <marius.predut at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a couple of small details - mesa has a fall-back for the mentioned
> functions (plus others) in $(top)/include/*h.
> >>
> >> That said, I believe that the overall consensus is that building mesa
> with MSVC 2008, is the bare minimum, with MSVC 2013 strongly recommended.
> Afaik, as the VMWare guys give us the go ahead > > > we'll drop all the
> workarounds for pre-2013 versions and bump the requirement.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Emil
> > Hmm, nice to know,
> > but in this case the build system have to take in consideration and this
> is a bug or ,
> >  by hand we should copy headers?
> >
> Not sure I fully understand your statement here. Currently there are
> two types of headers - A) provide official (like) implementation, and
> B) that wrap around existing ones.
> Example:
>  A) include/c99/* provides stdint.h & co for MSVC 2012 and older as
> they lack the headers.
>  B) include/c99_math.h provides compat wrapper, as MSVC 2013's math.h
> is not in C99 land yet.
>
> About using those - everything is handled already. Where needed the
> extra include is added by the build (for A) and where the code is
> known to be build with MSVC a header from B is used rather than the
> system one.
>
> Hope that clears things up.
> Emil
>
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