Windows host build

[Mud]

The windows host project in the SDK download won't build. There's a call to winhostext_WatchFolder in GlutHost.cpp, but the implementation of that function is not present so the project won't link.

I tried building from source (dev branch on git), but the host project there is broken, too. It contains a bunch of relative paths that are all wrong.

If anyone can direct me to an up-to-date build of the Windows host, I'd appreciate it.

I really want a Windows host that auto restarts when my game files changes like Akuma, but Akuma is out of date and guessing from the winhostext_WatchFolder call, it looks like that restart functionality has been rolled into the reference host.

[thebullno1]

The dev branch of Akuma is up-to-date with moai.
Back to the topic, I pulled Moai last night and got no problem building it. What errors did you get?

[Mud]

The dev branch of Akuma is up-to-date with moai.

This? Are you able to build from that? There seem to be files missing (like aku.h).

Back to the topic, I pulled Moai last night and got no problem building it.

Did you try building the win32 host? \moai-sdk\hosts\vs2010\moai-host.sln

What errors did you get?

It can't find any of the files. They are all relative paths, and the paths are wrong, as if the source got reorganized but that VS solution never got updated. I fixed the paths and got new errors which I can't remember at the moment; I figured at that point I was going down the wrong path by missing something or trying to fix an outdated solution.

I ended up just writing an external harness to let me monitor a directory and relaunch and position an arbitrary executable, and used that to get the behavior I want with the prebuild Win32 host.

[sean]

@Mud You can't build anything under the /distribute/moai-sdk/hosts folder in the GitHub source because it assumes the presence of pre-built SDK binaries which, of course, will not exist. You need to build from /vs2008 or /vs2010 to build from source.

[thebullno1]

The dev branch of Akuma is up-to-date with moai.

This? Are you able to build from that? There seem to be files missing (like aku.h).

aku.h is provided by Moai. You need to change visual studio setting to include that. Besides, you need SDL and boost filesystem.