Building CEED for Windows

(Works to date: 12. March, 2014)

The following instructions need to be done in the presented order and are created for the currently available version of CEED and could therefore be outdated at some point. Please notify us if you think this is outdated.

Installing the prerequisites

When downloading/installing binaries, always choose the 32-bit and VC9 (visual studio 2008) versions of the binaries

Installing Python

• Get Python 2.7.6 (32 bit version) for Windows and install it: https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Add your Python install folder path to the PATH variable in your Windows environment variables, e.g.: A:\Programs\Python27
• Now add the Scripts folder to the PATH environment variable, e.g.: A:\Programs\Python27\Scripts
• Open up Windows PowerShell with admin rights and type "python" - See if you get something written into the console, such as "Python 2.7.6 (default [...]", if this is the case then the install worked.

Installing pip

• Install the latest pip distribution: First download get-pip.py : http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html
• Open up Windows PowerShell with admin rights, change to the folder to which you downloaded "get-pip.py" by using the "cd" command, e.g.: cd "A:/Downloads/Not porn"
• Type "python get-pip.py" and click enter in the Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell should now install pip
• Afterwards write "pip" and click enter. You should get some sort of information about pip now, if the install succeeded.

Installing pyside

• Now you can install pyside easily with the following command: "pip install -U PySide"
• You should get a console output notifying you of a successful install

Installing pyOpenGL

• pip install requires a C compiler for this and some other things. We suggest just installing pyOpenGL on Windows from this installer: https://pypi.python.org/packages/any/P/PyOpenGL/PyOpenGL-3.0.2.win32.exe

Installing boost binaries

• We also need to install boost, choose the win32 version for VC9 http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.55.0-build2/

Build pyCegui

• Clone CEGUI v0-8 from the CEGUI repository to a new local folder https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/branch/v0-8 , e.g. to C:/pyCegui
• Check that the branch of your working directory is really v0-8 after cloning, if not then update to the latest v0-8 commit
• Add the usual CEGUI dependencies to their usual spot (dependencies folder)
• Open CMake and set the source code folder to your new local folder, e.g.: C:/pyCegui and the binaries to something like C:/pyCegui/build
• Set the paths to your Python and boost .lib files and and include directories in CMake
• Unselect Building the samples and select only OpenGL3 and OpenGL out of the available renderers to build
• Select CEGUI_BUILD_PYTHON_MODULES so that this option is checked
• Click configure and generate, it should work without errors
• Open the generated solution in the build folder and build it (You need 'Release' mode only)

Setup CEED

• Put the following dependencies of CEGUI into your build's bin folder, e.g.: C:/pyCEGUI/build/bin
  • From your CEGUI dependencies folder (e.g.: C:/pyCEGUI/dependencies) :
    • freetype.dll
    • glew.dll
  • From the boost binaries folder (e.g.: A:\Programs\boost_1_55_0\lib32-msvc-9.0 )