I never use VS or any of the microsoft platform really, so it doesn't surprise me to be in this position. After trying for days to get tulip to build on my machine, I can't get it to work. I've followed the directions in cmake, and it configures and generates VS 2012 project files that I can then open and attempt to build the tulip (tulip.labri.fr). But it fails miserably with a lot of errors each time (they've ranged from 75 to 160 with different settings I've tried). The vast majority of them, however are LINK errors related to, of all things, FTGL (one of the sub-projects generated by cmake). It also can't find cppunit headers or the libraries to link files to, and I can understand that. But what surprises me is that VS 2012 also can't find the libraries that I specified in cmake, like zlib and freetype. This really frustrates me, because it's like why did I have to specify them in cmake if VS 2012 was going to splutter out anyway. I'm so frustrated! I even went to ALL_BUILD, right clicked, went to "References..." and "Configuration Properties" and tried to specify the location of the cppunit headers and the location where the cppunit library is installed. Not only did I try to specify the location of the cppunit headers in VS 2012 express, I also went into CMake and tried to put the headers on the CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH. Even then, I still get LINK errors and compile errors where it can't compile stuff because it can't find cppunit headers or some COFF library.
If anyone has used CMake to generate VS build files, please lend a helping hand. I don't know how to get VS 2012 express to pick up the files that I have put right under its nose.
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