Having trouble compiling with VS Express 2013

[Noah Batten]

Hi there,

I have recently been trying to compile Aseprite 1.0 with Visual Studio Express 2013, and I have successfully downloaded the zip from github and put the solution together with cmake, yet when I try to build within VS, I get over 600 errors in the log. Do you know what I'm doing wrong? Is there any way to fix this? Please get back to me as soon as you can.

Thanks,

Noah

[David Capello]

Hi Noah,

It's a known issue. You have to compile with NMake Makefiles (or Ninja). Currently cmake isn't generating valid solutions to compile Aseprite, so please use cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" and compile from the command line with nmake.

Good luck,

- David

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[Noah Batten]

Okay, so I have do it through the command line. Do I put Cmake into the source-nmake folder? This is what I'm assuming I have to do from this:

CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:30 (project):
To use the NMake generator, cmake must be run from a shell that can use the
compiler cl from the command line. This environment does not contain
INCLUDE, LIB, or LIBPATH, and these must be set for the cl compiler to
work.

Or do I use it through something else? Also, where would I find my cl compiler?

[David Capello]

You need to start the Visual Studio 2013 Command Prompt. Anyway there is a .bat file to do so. Execute this:

@call "%VS120COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"

And then cl.exe to see that the compiler is available from the command line (PATH env variable).

- David

[David Capello]

As a side note, I'd like to ask you something:

Are you a programmer? Are you trying to contribute to Aseprite? Or cannot you afford the $10 for the compiled version?

- David

[Noah Batten]

Okay, okay, you got me. I am not a programmer by any means. I am a broke college student who has no means of acquiring the latest version of a piece of software I really like.

I am sorry to have bothered you with such obvious questions that anyone that knows how to compile projects on a Windows system. I think your Twitter tweeted me about doing a youtube video review on the program to get a free copy some time ago, but I figured to myself I'd just figure out how to compile it. As you can see, I'm stuck. (I might even do that review.)

However, if I can't figure this out in the long run, I will most likely give you your $10 that you probably deserve. Once I get a job. I really liked this program's free version and how easy it is to use and how quick it opens compared to programs like Photoshop.

Hope that answers your questions.

~Noah

[David Capello]

OK, I hope you can compile it successfully.

Good luck!

- David

[David Capello]

Hi Noah, you should be able to compile the last tag (v1.0.8.1) with a VS solution. Hope that helps.

- David