[Opensim-users] Opensim-users] How to compile opensim for windows

[Ai Austin]

>From: "Thomas Ringate" <tringate at gmail.com>
>How to compile opensim for windows

Thomas, for the latest 0.8l.1 dev master you first need to get a good 
install of the .NET 4.0 framework (several version should be able to 
coexist if needed) and you have to have Visual Studio 2010 (the 
Express free version is fine).  The SP1 service pack updates via 
Windows Update did cause me an issue (as it has many others) but 
obtaining the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 downloader and launching it 
myself resolved that.

I suggest you get those installed without any errors before you even 
think about proceeding.

I installed I have those on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems both 32 
bit and 64 bit. I never use Visual Studio and the .sln files for that 
in my own build process, its just there to allow for the 
runprebuild.bat and compile.bat in OpenSim to work.

I can then just download and unzip the current 0.8.1 dev master from
http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=shortlog&p=opensim

I change to the unzip directory

runprebuild.bat

compile.bat

Copy the ./bin directory created to my main OpenSim run directory

Copy over that the various configuration files (I track changes to 
the config .ini files and ever so often do a proper comparison to 
make sure I have not missed any additions or changes). Note that as a 
check I have it such that nothing will be replaced at all.. files are 
just added.

The I can run bin./OpenSim.exe

I practice I have some scripts I can use for this... but this manual 
process is the basis and I use it all the time. One server build or 
update can take less than a couple of minutes.

Hope that helps a bit.