The thread is a bit dated but probably still useful to answer your question:defaultuser wrote:What are developers using for the most part?
http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopi ... =26&t=9446
The thread is a bit dated but probably still useful to answer your question:defaultuser wrote:What are developers using for the most part?
To be honest the whole VS thing is a whole pile of bullcrap. Yes, Geoff uses some version of it but you need to jump through various hoops to have a working build environment on Windows in general when you want it for free. For once you need a variant of Visual Studio C++ 2015 toolchain as this the only version we provide precompiled external dependencies for. Then there are at least three variants of "VS Express 2015" (the "free as free beer" VS version) where only one is usable for native Windows Application development, "Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows Desktop" if I remember right. And this version doesn't provide a native C++ toolchain out of the box. You can download this C++ toolchain as external package called "Common Tools for VC++" IIRC and of course you need the 2015 version. Maybe having the free version of Visual Studio 2017 and combining it with the 2015 Common Tools for VC++ works, but I'm happy to have a working setup installed in a backup-ed and snapshot-ed virtual machine where all of this is installed in a proper way so I don't want bother with it anymore.defaultuser wrote:Visual Studio is what I use at work, so obviously the most familiar to me. I haven't looked at the 2015 free version, whatever they named that. The 2017 seems to be called "Community". Do these have full library support for doing development?