Win 8 cmake problems

[Alayan]

Thanks.
I tried to build with Visual Studio Express 2012 on win 8.1 ; following the online instructions.
I got a "Error in configuration process, project files may be invalid" at the end of the step 5 ; with cmake after having choosen configure.
CMakeOutput.log do not indicate any error ; however it's obvious it didn't work since the is no "solution" for visual studio for step 6.

Tried with current code from official repo and got the same issue.

Are there some steps of troobleshooting to follow or will I just be unable to compile with my config ?

[Arthur]

I don't use any recent Windows myself, so hiker or anyone else familiar with building on it would have to answer, but I don't see any obvious mistake, provided you followed the build instructions on the wiki (putting dependencies in the right place and so on).

[Auria]

Thanks.
I tried to build with Visual Studio Express 2012 on win 8.1 ; following the online instructions.
I got a "Error in configuration process, project files may be invalid" at the end of the step 5 ; with cmake after having choosen configure.
CMakeOutput.log do not indicate any error ; however it's obvious it didn't work since the is no "solution" for visual studio for step 6.

Tried with current code from official repo and got the same issue.

Are there some steps of troobleshooting to follow or will I just be unable to compile with my config ?

I have never seen this issue, but first why not try the latest version? (VS 2013)

[Alayan]

I didn't try with VS 2013 since from what I know it doesn't really add for desktop windows programs but has more changes oriented for the whole "applications" things.
& I double-checked the instructions were correctly followed, with the last dependecies (from 17/09/14) putted where said.

I did try after your suggestion, and not too surprisingly I got the same error with VS 2013.

I would try to build it on a linux VM box if only I was able to test correctly the game (except the fact it launches) with it, but the VM lacks too much efficiency & resources for that.
EDIT : unless someone can test instead of me ? If someone is interested let me know !

[Auria]

I'm afraid I don't really know, I have never met this issue and quite a few people build STK on Windows there is no other error output? maybe cmake keeps more verbose logs somewhere

[Alayan]

I troobleshooted the issue with hiker on IRC.
It was a dependencies issue, I took the mingw package instead of the normal windows one. >_>
I still have to add something (an error with stk-assets I don't have), but hopefully it will work soon