Building on Windows

Setting up Exodus Build Environment on Windows

Install and configure MS VC++	Step_by_step_instructions#INSTALL_COMPILER You need SDK *and* Visual Studio	*Ignore the section to "test Exodus compilation - you haven't built it yet!"
Install and configure Postgresql	Step_by_step_instructions#INSTALL_DATABASE	Ignore any configuration "for Exodus"
Install Subversion client	http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html	Ignore its suggestion to reboot after installation.
Install NSIS Installer Builder	http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/files/

Get Boost Libraries

Install or build Boost 1_46_1 binary libraries and header/include source files.

If you are simply building Exodus for packaging and release then you need only the release versions of Boost. You only need Boost debug libraries o develop/debug Exodus itself.

Source 1 - build them from source

Building Boost 32/64 on Windows

Source 2 - download from Exodus project

Header/Includes: Building_Boost_32/64_on_Windows#Get_Boost_Source

Binaries: http://exodusdb.googlecode.com/files/boost1461-vc100-x86x64-rd.zip

Unzip the binaries into the main boost source/header/includes like this:

boost_1_46_1\stage32
boost_1_46_1\stage64

Source 3 - download from BoostPro (but no x64! and no Unicode regex(?))

Installs includes and binaries.

See Installing_Boost but get:

• Version 1_46_1
• Visual Studio 2010
• mt and mt-debug version

Checkout Exodus

To commit any bug fixes or developments, send your gmail address here to get a password.

GUI

1. Create a folder called "exodus" F:\exodus
2. Right exodus click and choose "SVN checkout"
3. url of respository: HTTPS://exodusdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

TUI

svn co HTTPS://exodusdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ c:\exodus

You can use all the power of subversion to keep your build directory up to date, select previous versions of Exodus and generally be in control.

NB always use HTTPS not http for the subversion link below - just in case you need to commit any changes back up into the subversion repository.

Configure Exodus for Building, Packing, Uploading

config0.bat

copy the config0.bat to config.bat and edit it to reflect your configuration

If you are only building x64 then you dont need to set the x32 variables. Note that BOOST32 and BOOST64 may point to the same folder since the headers/includes are the same and the binaries are in different libs eg stage64 or lib64 etc.

Build Using Visual Studio

The exodus_all.sln relies on environment variables to identify location of boost, postgresql. All the necessary environment variables are set in config.bat.

To open visual studio with all the right environment variables set you must run dev.bat which calls config.bat and then opens your solution

dev.bat

1. Select Configuration: Release or Debug
2. Select Platform: x64 or Win32
3. Build the solution
4. Debug/Run the solution - should get an exodus/cmd command console
5. type configexodus, testsort, edic etc.

Build Using Scripts or Command Line

Once config.bat is setup then making is a completely automatic process. Currently config.bat only supports one configuration/platform (e.g. Release/x64) at a time.

make.bat
clean.bat

Packaging Exodus

Once config.bat is setup then packing is a completely automatic process. Look for output files like exodus-x86-11.5.3.exe.

pack.bat

Uploading Exodus

Once config.bat is setup then uploading new versions is a completely automatic process.

upload.bat

Old Info

Building on Windows - Old Version