Building Ogre in Windows 7/8 using Visual Studio 2012

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Building Ogre in Windows 7/8 using Visual Studio 2012

Since there are no prebuilt Ogre SDK’s targeting Visual Studio 2012 I decided to build it myself from source.

This is a guide on how to build Ogre in Windows using CMake and Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you are running Windows 7/8 and have Visual Studio 2012 installed.

Needed software

CMake

You will need this to configure Ogre and it’s dependencies. Download and install it fromhttp://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Mercurial

You will need this as Ogre uses this as their source code versioning system. Install it using the big blue button over at http://mercurial.selenic.com

DirectX SDK / Windows SDK

If you want to build Ogre with support for DirectX you will need to install the DirectX SDK for Windows 7 or just the Windows SDK if you are running Windows 8.

You can download the DirectX Software Development Kit from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812

If the DirectX SDK or WindowsSDK installer fails with something like error S1023 you should follow thisguide on how to uninstall and re-install the "Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package "

You can skip this and only build the Ogre OpenGL rendering system.

Download and build the Ogre dependencies

Here we will clone and build the Ogre dependencies project fromhttps://bitbucket.org/cabalistic/ogredeps using Mercrial and CMake.

clone the Ogre dependencies repository

Create the directory c:/projects/ and open it in the windows explorer, right click and choose “TortoiseHg > Clone…”

Set “https://bitbucket.org/cabalistic/ogredeps” as the source and “c:\projects\ogredeps” as the destination, click clone and let it finish.

Configure the dependencies project using CMake

Start CMake and set “Where is the source code” to c:/projects/ogredeps. Click on the “Configure” button at the lower left.

In the dialog choose “Visual Studio 11” in the dropdown and click “Finish”

Set “CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX” to c:/projects/ogredeps/install

Set “Where to build the binaries” to “c:/projects/ogredeps/build” and click on “Generate”, it will create solution files for you in c:/projects/ogredeps/build

Build the Ogre Dependencies using Visual Studio

open the solution file c:/projects/ogredeps/build/OGREDEPS.sln and build the “ALL_BUILD” project using both debug and release mode, then build the “INSTALL” project using both release and debug, this will build and install the dependencies toc:/projects/ogredeps/install

Download and build Ogre

We now have all of the tools and dependencies needed to build Ogre.

clone the Ogre repository

Open the c:/projects folder in the windows explorer, using TortoiseHg clone “https://bitbucket.org/sinbad/ogre/ -u v1-8” into c:/projects/ogre/

This will create a clone of the latest unstable branch, right click on the folder c:/projects/ogre/, choose TortoiseHg > Update and change the branch version to “v1-8” and click the update button.

v1-8 is the latest stable version of Ogre as I am writing this, checkhttp://www.ogre3d.org/developers/mercurial if this has changed when you are reading this.

Configure Ogre using CMake

Start CMake and set “Where is the source code” to c:/projects/ogre. Click on the “Configure” button at the lower left.

In the dialog choose “Visual Studio 11” in the drop-down and click “Finish”

CMake will fail, this is ok, we will fix it.

set “Where to build the binaries” to c:/projects/ogre/build

set “OGRE_DEPENDENCIES_DIR” to c:/projects/ogredeps/install

set “CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX” to c:/OgreSDK

make sure to check both “OGRE_BUILD_SAMPLES” and “OGRE_INSTALL_SAMPLES” if you wanna test Ogre after the build/install.

now click on “Configure” and then on “Generate” and it will generate the solution files for us inc:/projects/ogre/build

Build Ogre using Visual Studio

Open the solution file c:/projects/ogre/build/OGRE.sln and build the “ALL_BUILD” project using both debug and release mode, then build the “INSTALL” project using both release and debug, this will build and install the Ogre SDK and Samples into c:/OgreSDK

All done! you have now successfully built and installed Ogre into c:/OgreSDK

Execute C:\OgreSDK\bin\release\SampleBrowser.exe to view the prebuilt demos.