Building Piston on Windows

[bvssvni]

Post problems with building Piston here.

[ghost]

What do I need first in order to compile it successfully in Windows?

[sinistersnare]

+1 to @gamelovecourier, Windows instructions seem to be lacking in every aspect.

[bvssvni]

What kind of error messages do you get?

[bvssvni]

I need some pointers to what should be done to improve this, because I'm using OSX. Anyone that uses Windows that volunteer to write up some instructions for README.md?

[abonander]

I've gotten successful builds on Windows 7 64-bit in the past, but I'd need to clean and make a fresh install of my dev environment there so I can record the exact steps. It's mostly just about having the correct libs where the linker can find them, and having the DLLs in your runtime path.

It also depends on what backend you're using, such as GLFW or SDL2.

[redtrumpet]

I'm not sure if this is Windows specific, but I get the following error, trying to build the tutorial on windows:

$ cargo build
    Updating git repository `https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/graphics.git`
    Updating git repository `https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/sdl2_window.git
`
    Updating git repository `https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/opengl_graphics
.git`
no matching package named `piston2d-graphics` found (required by `piston`)
location searched: https://github.com/pistondevelopers/graphics#a7b7abde
version required: = 0.0.4
versions found: 0.0.11

It seems that some package requires the wrong version?

[bvssvni]

I guess we can close this. Please open up new issues if there are problems building on windows.