Other Compiler

[buddysievers]

is it possible to build the servers on windows without windows sdk 7.1 or visual c++ 2010/2012 installed?!
if its possible on linux why not on windows...
maybe with mingw or apache ant ???
thx in advance dear community

[whasf]

You don't need the SDK installed, but you kind of need the compiler and libraries (VS 2010/12) to be able to build it.

[buddysievers]

yeah i know.
i mean if its possible to compile it on linux with gcc/g++ then it should be able to compile it with mingw on windows...

[whasf]

Why would you want to though? VC++ 2010/2012 Express are free to download & use. It sounds like you're trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be, unless I'm missing something?

[bluekirby0]

Well mingw/MSYS or cygwin builds might be possible OOTB, but there will probably need to be some adjustments made to the preprocessor macros since the linux build system isn't as flexible as I would like. Ideally we would be using something like cmake instead of autotools, but since almost all of the devs on the project work only on windows that just adds an extra step to the build process.