Building CEGUI 0.7 for Ogre v1.7+

[dredogol]

Alright, I'm following this guide:
http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/ ... reRenderer

but I'm stuck on this step:
3. In your CEGUI folder there should be a folder called "projects" with a subfolder called "premake". Get a version of premake and extract the premake.exe file into this folder.

I DLed the CEGUI SDK for v0.7.
I can't see to find "premake.exe", or know where to get a version of PreMake.
I can't find the "config.lua" file either.
Also, where is the "build_vs2008.bat" file at?

I should be able to finish the rest of that guide if I have those 3 things.
Thanks.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

It seems a small typo in that wiki guide. It should not say SDK there, it should say the source package instead; it is in the source package where you will find the projects/premake directory along with the config.lua and batch files

Premake can be downloaded from the premake project (http://premake.sourceforge.net/), you should use the 3.6 or 3.7 versions of premake (our premake scripts are not updated for premake 4 at the moment).

HTH

CE.

[dredogol]

Ah, thanks Eddie.
Not only should the CEGUI wiki be updated, but you should also tell the guys at Ogre to update theirs as well.

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[dredogol]

I ran into an error during the build process for CEGUIOgreRenderer (from SOURCE)...

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1>CEGUIFontManager.cpp
1>e:\+ installs - programs\ogre_3d\program - cegui_source (v0.7.1)\cegui\include\ceguifreetypefont.h(37) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
1>CEGUIFontProperties.cpp
1>e:\+ installs - programs\ogre_3d\program - cegui_source (v0.7.1)\cegui\include\ceguifreetypefont.h(37) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
1>CEGUIFont_xmlHandler.cpp
...
...
1>e:\+ installs - programs\ogre_3d\program - cegui_source (v0.7.1)\cegui\include\ceguifreetypefont.h(37) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
1>CEGUIFormattedRenderedString.cpp
1>CEGUIFreeTypeFont.cpp
1>e:\+ installs - programs\ogre_3d\program - cegui_source (v0.7.1)\cegui\include\ceguifreetypefont.h(37) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
1>CEGUIGlobalEventSet.cpp
...
...
1>CEGUIPCRERegexMatcher.cpp
1>e:\+ installs - programs\ogre_3d\program - cegui_source (v0.7.1)\cegui\include\ceguipcreregexmatcher.h(33) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pcre.h': No such file or directory
1>CEGUIPixmapFont.cpp
...
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1>Generating Code...
1>Build log was saved at "file://e:\+ Installs - Programs\OGRE_3D\PROGRAM - CEGUI_SOURCE (v0.7.1)\projects\premake\BaseSystem\obj\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>CEGUIBase - 6 error(s), 38 warning(s)
2>------ Build started: Project: CEGUIOgreRenderer, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
...
...
2>Linking...
2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '../../../../lib/CEGUIBase_d.lib'
2>Build log was saved at "file://e:\+ Installs - Programs\OGRE_3D\PROGRAM - CEGUI_SOURCE (v0.7.1)\projects\premake\RendererModules\Ogre\obj\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
2>CEGUIOgreRenderer - 1 error(s), 26 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 2 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Those were the error I found during the DEBUG build process.
Yes... I pointed to the correct lib/debug folder for the Ogre files.

Also, when I tried to do the SDK build (after I copied everything from the Source\premake folder to the SDK\premake folder)... I got these errors:

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1>------ Build started: Project: CEGUIBase, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Embedding manifest...
1>.\obj\Debug\CEGUIBase_d.dll.intermediate.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
1>Build log was saved at "file://e:\+ Installs - Programs\OGRE_3D\PROGRAM - CEGUI_SDK (v0.7.1_vc9)\projects\premake\BaseSystem\obj\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>CEGUIBase - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
2>------ Build started: Project: CEGUIOgreRenderer, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
2>Embedding manifest...
2>.\obj\Debug\CEGUIOgreRenderer_d.dll.intermediate.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
2>Build log was saved at "file://e:\+ Installs - Programs\OGRE_3D\PROGRAM - CEGUI_SDK (v0.7.1_vc9)\projects\premake\RendererModules\Ogre\obj\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
2>CEGUIOgreRenderer - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 2 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Little help please?

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

The first block of issues appear to be because you don't have the cegui dependencies package extracted to the correct location. This is covered - a bit briefly - here: http://cegui.org.uk/docs/current/compil ... ling_sec_5 Basically you have to grab an appropriate dependencies package and extract it so that you get a new directory 'dependencies' in the root directory of the extracted CEGUI source distribution (i.e. in the CEGUI-0.7.1 directory).

With regards to the second set of issues... If you're using the source distribution, you should forget about the SDKs. There is no need to copy any files into the SDKs, the only thing in the SDK to be built is the samples and these are also available in the source distribution. Basically the SDK is a subset of the source distro - everything you can do with the SDK you can do with the source version, but the opposite is not always true. So, because you're having to use the source distribution in order to build an updated CEGUIOgreRenderer, I would get that working and leave the prebuilt versions completely - otherwise you can end up making things unnecessarily complicated and have the potential to introduce other issues down the road.

CE.

[CrazyEddie]

With regards to this:

Not only should the CEGUI wiki be updated, but you should also tell the guys at Ogre to update theirs as well.

If the original contributor does not fix the issues, it would be appreciated if you did it. I cant possibly maintain every article on the Wiki in addition to everything else I already do - unfortunately there are only so many hours in the day

Btw, I know our Wiki is horribly slow a lot of the time - it's an issue I will be looking into, though currently I'm still monitoring the forum software for issues. Once I'm happy the forum is fixed (and it's looking like it is at the moment), I will turn my attention to the Wiki and fix that too.

CE.

[dredogol]

Thanks Eddie.

FYI ... I found the /Dependencies folder from the SDK root folder, and copied it to my Source root folder.
After that, everything went smoothly.

BTW... why doesn't the Source have the Dependencies folder

[Solved]

[CrazyEddie]

The dependencies are a separate download - this is because you need a matching set for your compiler (vc7.1, vc8, vc9, or Mac Xcode). They're available through the download page and the 0.7.1 release announcement page (as well as directly via sourceforge, of course).

For example, the 0.7.1 announcement contains this:

CEGUI 0.7.x-r1 precompiled dependencies for MSVC++ 2005 (must have SP1) (.zip file)
CEGUI 0.7.x-r1 precompiled dependencies for MSVC++ 2008 (.zip file)
CEGUI 0.7.x precompiled dependencies for Apple Mac OS X (32 bit Universal) (.zip file)

HTH

CE.