Voluteer to test VS build solicited

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Hi Eastwind,
thanks for the docs, I managed to compile as well. Now I need a purpose!

Regards, Willem.

[Gwarl]

All I ask is that nobody removes the ability to simply

make -f Makefile.std

from anything. Please.

[Pagaronn]

follow up

Sorry eastwind, I did not do any followup since my offer to help. I felt overwhelm to get the project - I was not sure how so I went back at playing UnAngband instead with my free time.

[AnonymousHero]

I don't think the fact that I made angband build with VS is a good argument for switching to CMake. Rather, it's a good argument for not using CMake.

The mere fact that you even had to work to make Angbuild build with VS is an argument for CMake (or whatever other non-make non-auto* system that is actually somewhat sane -- I only mention CMake because I'm familiar with it and have used it quite happily with T2. Most IDEs I've tried also have decent-to-good support for it -- which is not the case for make-based systems.). It should have just worked out of the box.

... but never fear. I have no intention of pressing the issue. (Nor could I.) I just wanted to mention that these issues are indeed soluble and should be non-issues.

[WindLord]

Success

I successfully got your image to compile and run. It took a couple times and finally matched your directory structure.
The instructions seem to show two ways to do stuff. One is use directly from the GIT master and the other is to use your VS project.

Your build seems slower than the Windows EXE available for download.

Do you know if your image includes the update for the Quiver changes? I play as Ranger and this is of interest to me.

Thank you for getting this up.
Rick
PS: I downloaded the Master, and all compiled. But when I try to run it, the different windows come up and stay for about two seconds then the program shuts down.
Figure I overwrote a file that should not have been changed. And suggestions where to start looking?
Thank you

[Gauss]

This is exactly why Angband should just bite the bullet and move to CMake. It'll happily generate solution files, etc. I've offered to help before, but it fell on deaf ears

I've been working on it for a week now. Still trying to get it build but i have currently a lot of assignments and work.