[GEM-dev] building gem on windows using vc2010

[Menno van der Woude]

Hi all,

since I would like to build an altered version of pix_drum
(http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/archives/731) I am trying to build Gem on
Windows 7.
I am running Windows 7 ultimate x64, using MS Visual Studio 2010 C++
Express to try and compile.

So far I had been using Linux to develop pix_drum.
I have succesfully built the object in Ubuntu 11.04 x64 (had to adjust
some headers cause 11.04 does no longer come with V4L1 in the kernel)
In Linux I used ./configure and make to build Gem (mostly cause I do
not know how to do it using Codeblocks)

Now I want to be able to use the pix_drum object also in Windows,
cause I wish to be able to test and use it on a WindowsXP pc (32
bits).
However, no luck so far, and I am beginning to think it maybe more
easy to install linux on the pc than to continue using windows.
Is it normal for compilation on Windows to be really a lot more
troublesome than in Linux?
Or am I maybe just using the wrong ide/compiler for this?

So far I have tried this:
- downloaded sources: Gem, Pd, tiff, jpeg, ftgl, freetype
- changed some header filenames
- installed quicktime sdk and windows sdk
- built static libs (using both nmake and msvs2010c++)
- converted win-vs2003 project from Gem source tar to vs2010c++
- changed include and linker directories
- removed from the project all files with DS in their name
(pix_DSvideo, DSgrabber, etc) cause they gave me errors I could not
handle:
1>..\..\src\Pixes\DSgrabber.cpp(13): fatal error C1083: Cannot open
include file: 'streams.h': No such file or directory
1>C:\Users\Menno\Documents\PD\Gem\gem-0.92-3\src\Pixes/filmDS.h(23):
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'qedit.h': No such file
or directory
1>..\..\src\Pixes\pix_movieDS.cpp(5): fatal error C1083: Cannot open
include file: 'atlbase.h': No such file or directory
1>c:\users\menno\documents\pd\gem\gem-0.92-3\src\pixes\pix_videoDS.h(22):
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'qedit.h': No such file
or directory

After removing them there remain a lot of warnings, which is fine,
however I am stuck with this error:
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'strmbasD.lib'

This all would appear to have something to do with the way DirectShow
(and PlatformSDK?) is now embedded in the Windows SDK, however, I
cannot find details on this explaining me how to proceed...
Any help is appreciated. Or if it's best I will return to using Ubuntu
and install that on the system I wish to test...

Bye, Menno.