Getting Started - Not yet anyway.

[tcorbet]

I apologize for terribly basic questions which probably ought to be directed to some Visual Studio forum, but I only have Visual Studio for the purpose of getting Bullet Physics running in order to augment someone's port of the Bullet Physics engine to Actionscript, so, yes, I know almost nothing about how to use Visual Studio.

01. I have a good download of the latest Bullet library.

02. I have a good install of the CMake gui.

03. I have read the Wiki-based documentation, and Installation section of the pdf User Manual.

04. Following those instructions I have what I believe to be the proper Build directory which seemingly has all the correct setup files. Looking at the CMakeCache.txt and the cmake_install.cmake files [through a glass darkly, to be sure] they look right.

05. Where I fail is where the instructions say to run the DOS start command pointing to the BULLET_PHYSICS.sln file. That does nothing. Alternatively double-clicking on the BULLET_PHYSICS.sln file does nothing.

I suppose that points to a 'bad Visual Studio install", but I can otherwise use Visual Studio to open projects, create source programs, compile them, etc.

How do I get the compilation of the library to happen?

I have a pretty complete, pretty full cygwin environment, should I follow the cmake instructions to attempt a Unix install? I know that is probably not the right thing in some 'production' sense, but I am not looking to create a production result in any case. I just need to be competent in building a C++ test sample to use for guiding the Actionscript [Alchemy] version.

Thank you.

[tcorbet]

It was a Visual Studio problem.

I had tried to get by with just installing Express 10, without having to swallow SQL Server. Uninstalling/cleaning/reinstalling with SQL Server including a SP 1 patch, and opening the BULLET_PHYSICS.sln finally launched the compilations, which ran to good end of job in about 50 seconds.