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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: October 04, 2016, 08:52:41 AM »

I did get it up and running. I get that message I posted last but when I click NO xLights runs fine as far as I can tell.  Now begins the task of poking through the code and seeing what I need to do to add my bits.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 30, 2016, 07:27:45 AM »

Copy the DLL's into the "bin" directory.   That's what I did.

That did it! Thanks.

Now I do get this message but if I click no, xLights runs. Is this something I need to worry about?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 30, 2016, 07:12:33 AM »

Me again. I might get this up and running eventually and I'll stop bugging y'all, well maybe not.

So project built just fine, woo hoo, but I get an error that the DLL doesn't exist. I checked the wxWidgets
\lib\gcc_dll folder and they are there. So I'm checking the compiler settings and the Linker correctly points to gcc_dll folder and it looks like I have everything setup just like the instructions say to have it. Should I have moved the DLLs to another place after they were build or registered them?

I did notice this though. On the compiler tab it notes to have a path to the contrib\include folder but there's no contrib folder.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 29, 2016, 09:47:45 AM »

And why not just use the download version of the install program?  Nice to know how to build the system, but there is a lot of other work to be done in getting the light show done.  I'm all for learning, but I'm also for optimizing my time.  Don't ask me how many times I missed my self imposed deadline because of trying to go the hard way instead of the easy way.  I may not be able to count that high.

Jim,  I want to add a mega tree calculator to the tools in xLights. Someone mentioned they would like to have one that considers the top of the tree instead of just using a pointed cone and being the type of person I am, I started coding one. Gil then mentioned I should just add it to the tools in xLights instead of having it as a stand alone program so that's what I'm up to.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 29, 2016, 09:35:40 AM »

So today's mystery. When I load the project in Code::Blocks the Global Variable Editor comes up with the Current Variable of wxvc. I never set that, just wx like the instructions. I've tried deleting it but it comes right back.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 12:08:01 PM »

So I feel like a complete dumb ass for this one. The build failed because I had file explorer open. as soon as i closed that, it worked fine. ugh. I really hate windows sometimes.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 11:26:57 AM »

Okay I'll get the older version of mingw and try that.

As far as the wxWidgets, I made that change in VS since that's my default program. While i did shut it down after the edits I'm wondering if some of the other tools I use that are in both VS and SQL Server messed with it.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 09:10:08 AM »

One thing to note is I had to change the path in step 3 to this:

SET Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files (x86)\mingw-w64\i686-6.2.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev1\mingw32\bin

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 09:06:04 AM »

This is what I get for trying to take advantage of a slow day at work. So I removed wxWidgets from where it was and reintalled.  Got to step 7 of the readme and Error. Ugh

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 08:25:44 AM »

Guess I'll give Code Blocks a try then. Was just hoping to use the tools I already have and that I'm already familiar with.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Building xLights

« on: September 28, 2016, 08:06:25 AM »

What did I do wrong? I followed the instructions on the Readme.windows from GitHub for Visual Studio. I'm running VS 2015 professional. Placed the xLights code and wxWidgets in the same base directory. Build DLL Debug and DLL Release of wxWidgets in VS with no errors. Opened the xlights solution but when I attempt to build it, I get 244 errors relating to header files. See attached image for some of the errors.