History: Prerequisites
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What you need to build Ogre from source. |
Introduction
This is a small check list of things you need to do before you're ready to build Ogre from source.
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| Visual Studio 2008 (VC9) | Service pack 1 and the ATL security fix (available from Microsoft Update). |
| Visual Studio 2005 (VC8) | Service pack 1 |
Visual Studio Express users do not need a separate service pack or ATL security fix because the latest install download is already fixed.
Get it from http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/.
MinGW
Get the latest MinGW installer from here and install MinGW.
Make sure to include the C++ compiler (it is the only required compiler for Ogre, but installing all of them doesn't hurt).
You most likely do not want the full "MinGW Developer Toolkit", but you should check the "MSYS Basic System".
Install it to C:\mingw.
Also add C:\mingw\bin to your PATH. The installer might ask if it should do that for you, but if you did not install with admin rights, this likely did not work. In any case, you should check and make sure it is correctly added to your PATH.
Boost
Boost is not required to build Ogre - it's optional. 😊The Boost Threads library is used by the paging component, which in turn is used by the terrain component, enabling background loading and thus faster response times.
It's recommended to get Boost 1.49.0.
Also, around the same boost version, bjam was renamed to b2, so don't be confused if newer boost manuals require you to use "b2" instead of "bjam" when building. It's actually the same.
Lucky users of Visual Studio 2003 - 2010 can use the Boostpro Boost Installers.
Select your compiler and "Multithreaded" and "Multithreaded Debug".
Be sure to install Boost Date Time and Boost Thread. The default selection (all) makes sure it's installed.
CMake depends on the following environment variables to find Boost succesfully:
BOOST_ROOT (C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_49)
BOOST_INCLUDEDIR (C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_49)
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR (C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_49\lib)
Well, at least BOOST_ROOT, but it can't hurt to set the two others.
Building boost from source
As boostpro is not always up-to-date with the newest boost versions, you might want to build boost from sources yourself.
MinGW users will always have to build boost from sources.
Get Boost 1.49.0 from www.boost.org and the b2 executable as detailed on the Boost compile page and follow the 5.3 guide to build boost from sources.
For MinGW users: When asked to run "bootstrap.bat", make sure to run "bootstrap.bat gcc" instead.This line builds Boost date_time and thread using VC10:
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b2 --build-dir="C:\boost-vc10" toolset=msvc-10.0 --build-type=complete --with-date_time --with-thread
This line builds Boost date_time and thread using gcc:
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b2 --build-dir="C:\boost-gcc" toolset=gcc --build-type=complete --with-date_time --with-thread
If you just want all of boost installed (it's really useful!), just do the same command without "-with-date_time -with-thread"
When done building, move the contents of boost_dir/stage/lib to boost_dir/lib.
If you are sure you're not going to rebuild Boost, you can safely delete the build directory (i.e. C:\boost-vc10)
DirectX
To build OGRE on Windows you'll need the DirectX SDK. As of the release of Windows 8, DirectX is no longer a standalone package, rather it is bundled in the Windows8.x SDK (latest version is the Windows 8.1 SDK.)
Dependencies
A repository containing a CMake version of dependencies is also available here (needed if you want to build Ogre default branch against MinGW). Make sure to read our nice CMake Guide if you haven't yet.
The following two links are outdated. It is probably the best to simply build the dependencies using the repository and CMake as described above. But you may of course try to use them:Visual Studio users need to compile the dependencies themselves: Visual Studio Dependencies
MinGW users can grab the precompiled MinGW Dependencies
Unpack the dependencies into either your Ogre source directory, your Ogre build directory or somewhere else.
The directory should be named Dependencies if put into either the source or the build directory.
If you choose to place it elsewhere, you can name it however you like, as long as you're setting an environment variable OGRE_DEPENDENCIES_DIR pointing to its location.
It's recommended to use the last option - OGRE_DEPENDENCIES_DIR - as it makes it easier to manage several different dependencies (vc9, vc10, mingw) on the same computer, against the same Ogre source directory.
Be sure to build the dependencies if using Visual Studio! Find the solution file in Dependencies/src. And don't forget to build in both configurations: debug and release. Additional information for OIS linking error with dxguid.lib can be found in the forums. Building FreeImage with Visual Studio is buggy (_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL bug). You can compile FreeImage in the following way:- Build the full FreeImage packet on Debug for all platforms
- Switch actual configuration to Release
- Save the project map and close VS
- Delete all temporary folders of the project (look for "Intermediate Directory")
- Start VS and load FreeImage project
- Build the full FreeImage packet on Release for all platforms