Compiling Angband on Windows with Visual Studio

[Aodhlin]

Hi!

I'm trying to compile Angband using Visual Studio, following this guide --

https://github.com/angband/angband/blob/master/src/win/angband_visual_studio_step_by_step.txt

However, when I got to the "build" step, I got the following errors.

Can anyone help me figure out what to do next?

Thank you!

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error (active) E1696 cannot open source file "unistd.h" AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\h-basic.h 121
Error (active) E1696 cannot open source file "pwd.h" AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\h-basic.h 119

[backwardsEric]

When you followed step 2 of those instructions, did you create an empty win32 project? It looks like you are missing a preprocessor define (either _WINDOWS, __WINDOWS__, __WIN32__, WIN32, __WINNT__, or __NT__ would work), and I suspect that one of those should have been set if the appropriate project type had been selected.

There's a couple of additional preprocessor defines that you may want to set in step 11 of those instructions: ALLOW_BORG (to enable the borg) and _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS (to disable some warnings that Microsoft's compiler likes to issue about some standard C library or Unix-compatibility functions).

[Aodhlin]

When you followed step 2 of those instructions, did you create an empty win32 project? It looks like you are missing a preprocessor define (either _WINDOWS, __WINDOWS__, __WIN32__, WIN32, __WINNT__, or __NT__ would work), and I suspect that one of those should have been set if the appropriate project type had been selected.

There's a couple of additional preprocessor defines that you may want to set in step 11 of those instructions: BORG (to enable the borg) and _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS (to disable some warnings that Microsoft's compiler likes to issue about some standard C library or Unix-compatibility functions).

OK, I experimented and got further.

Now I'm getting the below errors, even though I included list-tvals.h in the project.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'list-tvals.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-formulas.h 46

Do I have to move the stuff out of the borg directory into the normal source directory?

[backwardsEric]

All the other references to Angband's include files in the borg have "../" in front of the file name so that line in borg-formulas.h should be

<CODE>
#include "../list-tvals.h"
</CODE>

The builds we do on GitHub using the project files in src/win/vs2019 should have caught that; it's not clear to me why they didn't.

[Aodhlin]

I've gotten similar errors. I'll experiment more a bit later.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'list-effects.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-magic-play.c 38
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'list-tvals.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-formulas.c 60
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'ui-menu.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-item-decurse.c 24

[Aodhlin]

I've gotten similar errors. I'll experiment more a bit later.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'list-effects.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-magic-play.c 38
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'list-tvals.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-formulas.c 60
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'ui-menu.h': No such file or directory AngbandTest C:\Users\dynam\source\repos\AngbandTest\AngbandTes t\src\borg\borg-item-decurse.c 24

OK, I've managed to get Angband to compile using the Visual Studio project included in the zip. Disregard this.

One note is that you need to make sure to be using a 32-bit compile, not 64-bit. Otherwise libpng gets mad.

[backwardsEric]

On the same line as the 32-bit versus 64-bit issue, you'll have to build for an x86 target if you are using the versions of libpng and zlib packaged with the source code: those libraries are 32-bit and for x86 only. If you want to build for something that is not x86, you would need to replace those libraries.