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Support #301

cannot find Wt.sln

Added by Anonymous almost 2 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

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Closed

Start:

02/17/2010

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Normal

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Wim Dumon

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Description

We are new to the Wt download/configure/compile/build/installation procedure. We have the following issue:

(1) We want to download and install Wt 3.1.0. in our Windows PC. After we downloaded all the dependencies, we downloaded the Wt 3.1.0 Package for Source and Documentation from the Wt website.

(2) We then started CMake to tell it where the Wt source code and Build directory are. We selected Visual Studio 8 2005 as our C++ tool which we already installed. All seemed to go well. Configuration is completed.

(3) How-ever, when we went to the 'Compiling Wt' procedure. The instruction said: "Open the WT.sln solution in the "Where to build the binaries" directory. We could not find any Wt.sln file in that directory. In fact, the PC search could not find any Wt.sln in the PC. All the source files downloaded have .C extension. MSVC 8 expects any C++ source file to have extensions of .cpp. Seems like we have downloaded the Wt Source for the Unix OS and NOT for the MS Windows OS. Could anyone help us in solving our problem.

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Updated by Wim Dumon almost 2 years ago

Hello,

From your post, I assume you found our windows build instructions at http://redmine.emweb.be/wiki/wt/Installing_Wt_on_MS_Windows

Not having WT.sln means that CMake did not generate its WT.sln file. CMake generates the solution files when you click the 'Ok' button in cmake. Did cmake warn about not being able to generate the sources for any particular reason?

Also, wt uses .C for C++ files. It is true that this is unusual on Windows, but it is not a problem on Windows, if you specify the correct compile options, which we do.

If this does not help, could you report what version of cmake you are using?