[Freeswitch-users] Building on Windows

[Jeff Lenk]

The sounds projects (which do the downloads and extraction) are not present
for 2005. Also alot of the newer modules dont have build support either.

I would suggest you use VS2008 Express


Michael Jerris wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:02:10PM -0000, Dave Stevenson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm probably going to regret this - I'm not sure that I'll be able to do
>>> this without a lot of pain (nothing to do with FS - more my lack of
>>> ability with Visual Studio), but......, I want to try building
>>> FreeSwitch from source rather than using the pre-built binaries. I have
>>> a couple of initial questions that, hopefully, someone can answer please
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> 1. I only have Visual Studio 2005 and don't see an upgrade to 2008 on
>>> the horizon for me.
>>> Having downloaded the SVN, I see there is a VS 2005 Solution, but it is
>>> marked as "Unsupported", although the Wiki says that you only need
>>> VC++2005.
>>> What does "unsupported" mean in this context ? I guess that support for
>>> VS2005 is being dropped, but is the VS2005 Solution still being
>>> maintained, and if so, for how long? I'd hate to get into the build
>>> thing and then find that I was stalled when VS2005 support was dropped
>>> altogether ?
>> 
>> Install VS 2008 if at all possible (express edition is free). 2005
>> support isn't maintained much if at all, so a lot of newer modules stand
>> a good chance of not having support.
> 
> We maintain it as far as things that work now shouldn't break, but we
> rarely test it and only fix things when people supply patches or let me
> know there is a problem so I can address it.
> 
>>> 
>>> 2. The whole SVN thing is new to me but I've worked out that I need an
>>> SVN Client on Windows to work with the source. Can anyone recommend the
>>> best (free) SVN Client for Windows to use with FreeSwitch. I have
>>> installed TortoiseSVN - a Windows Explorer Shell that looks pretty and
>>> seemed to work on my first build but it's not command line based so some
>>> of the tips given in the Wiki like "make current" and "make sounds" may
>>> be more awkward to achieve. Is anyone else using Tortoise and/or can
>>> give some tips on which SVN client to use ?
>>> 
>> Tortoise SVN is fine and is probably the de-facto client for windows.
>> 
> 
> make current and such are all for the unix build only, on the msvc (at
> least 2008) build they are all built right into the solution
> ]
>>> 3. I built 15979 last night (with VS2005) and got some warnings, with
>>> data type conversion - is this a known issue under Windows ?
> 
> 2005 has slightly different warning settings than are even available in
> 2008 so I get these from time to time.  If you open up a bug on
> jira.freeswitch.org for me with details I can try to get them corrected.
> 
>>> 
>>> 4. There was one fatal error in the build of mod_opal (missing file)
>>> (Some examples of the warnings and the error are shown below :-)
>>> 
>> Try with VS 2008 and see if they go away.
> 
> I think this is due to missing dependencies.  I don't think I had
> automation to download the right svn versions of opal.
> 
>>> 5. How do I specify which options (e.g., mod_flite, to be included iin
>>> the build.
>>> 
>> You can enable the different sub projects somehow in the UI, I always
>> forget exactly how but just click around in VS and you'll find it.
> 
> You can adjust this in the configuration managaer
> 
>>> 6. How do I build the sounds etc. ?
>>> 
>> 
>> The sounds are a subproject too IIRC.
> 
> I think think might only be in the 2008 versions, I can't recall to be
> sure, but there are targets you can build that will install them.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
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