SFall and MS Visual Studio.

Mulligun · Feb 25, 2020

I'd like to compile SFall in MS Visual Studio 2019. How can i download all the files in one package? Is there a solution just to open it in VS?

Samira · Feb 25, 2020

TL;DR https://github.com/rotators/sfall/blob/rotators/.github/workflows/Build.yml
Complete VS2019 build from scratch; assumes you have all required VS components (everything related to v140/WinXP support) already installed.

Link above isn't exactly perfect example (due to various customizations), so here's must-have list:

Get DX2010, extract Include/ and Lib/x86/ to SomeDirectory/
See https://github.com/rotators/sfall/b...aefb649c4/.github/workflows/Build.yml#L52-L55

Get DX2007, extract Lib/x86/dinput.lib to SomeDirectory/Lib/x86/
See https://github.com/rotators/sfall/b...aefb649c4/.github/workflows/Build.yml#L59-L62

Create sfall/PostBuild.cmd file; it must be present, even if it's empty
See https://github.com/rotators/sfall/b...f522aefb649c4/.github/workflows/Build.yml#L77

Create environment variable DXSDK_DIR=SomeDirectory/
Alternative: change DXSDK_DIR to SomeDirecty/ in project settings, wherever you see it
See https://github.com/rotators/sfall/b...f522aefb649c4/.github/workflows/Build.yml#L27

Build ddraw.sln with Configuration=ReleaseXP, Platform=Win32
See https://github.com/rotators/sfall/b...522aefb649c4/.github/workflows/Build.yml#L101

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Note that if you have problems with v140 build, you can use v142 after small edit to ddraw.vcxproj; this is close enough solution for testing your changes, but not good enough if you want to distribute dll with your mod.

Replace this...

Code:

<EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>NoExtensions</EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>

...with this

Code:

<EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>StreamingSIMDExtensions2</EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>