[Bf-committers] iksolver_plugin.c error, MSVC 2010 express project files.

[Erwin Coumans]

As Tom mentioned, could you please try using cmake to autogenerate  
visual studio 2010 project files?

It would be better for
Thanks,
Erwin

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On Mar 28, 2010, at 17:19, Pacific Morrowind  
<pacificmorrowind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all;
> I have finally gotten around to starting on building the Blender  
> source
> code myself so that I can test changes that I want to do.
> However I'm using MSVC 2010 express; for which there are no project
> files. So I have started converting the project files (unfortunately  
> it
> is requiring quite a lot of manual changes as well as the
> solution/project automatic upgrade), when I'm done the manual changes
> I'll submit them for inclusion (unless someone of the blender team  
> says
> that they would be unwanted or something like that).
> however I've found some errors/oddities in the blender source code:
> -  hundreds of truncation from double to float and similar warnings  
> (non
> fatal, and I'm guessing purposeful?)
> - a couple fatal errors;
>     - a few of which I've figured out and were in the project files  
> and
> could easily be changed even with my less than high skill level (and a
> few errors in the MSBuild 4.0 system - which does make me feel good
> since they are getting paid to program, and have years of coding
> experience and are still making errors - makes me feel higher skill
> level than I actually am)
>     - only one (so far) in the blender code which I've traced and
> figured out a fix for:
>     that is in /iksolver_plugin.c/ (which is in
> /\source\blender\ikplugin\intern\/); line 44 is currently [code] 
> #include
> "IK_solver.h"[/code]. However that won't work with MSVC 2010 ( builder
> can't find the file). So to fix it I replaced it with [code]#include
> "..\..\..\..\intern\iksolver\extern\IK_solver.h"[/code]; This works  
> fine
> for MSVC 2010. However I have no idea how the other build systems will
> respond to that change; so before I submit that as a patch could  
> someone
> with some other build system test that out?
>
> If anyone can test that I'd be really grateful. Also sorry for my
> (rather apparent) inexperience and lack of knowledge on C++  
> programming.
> As you may be able to guess by this message I'm hoping to get involved
> in the Blender development and hope that I will be able to  
> contribute at
> least a bit despite my currently very limited knowledge and  
> experience.
> Pacific Morrowind (or Nick if you prefer)
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