Prebuild binaries for Visual Studio 2015

[kingguru]

Hi there,

Although I primarily work on Linux, I would like my code to work on Windows as well and therefore set up a small Windows installation with Windows 7 and the latest version of Microsofts C++ compiler.

The latest version of Visual Studio, as far as I can tell, is 2015 but there are no precompiled version of SFML available for download for that version yet.

I tried to compile SFML myself using the latest version of Visual Studio and faced some issues that I don't really want to bother you with since I'm fairly certain I could figure them out, but being lazy it would be nice not to have to do so that my question is simply:

Will there be a precompiled version of SFML for the latest version of Microsofts compiler available and if yes, then in which timeframe?

Additionally, it's been a while since I wanted to compile cross platform stuff on Windows so I'm not really up to date on what is currently the best way to do it. Should I just go with GCC (mingw?) or even clang instead?

Thanks a lot and hope this is the right forum to ask this in :-)

[Jesper Juhl]

Please search the forum and you'll find that this has been asked and answered several times.

Short answer: yes, there will eventually be pre-built binaries.

[kingguru]

Thanks Jesper.

It seems like the problem was me not being able to use the search function and only searched in a subforum instead of all of the forums.

There are indeed plenty of discussions related to this issue.

Sorry about that :-)

[Jesper Juhl]

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There are indeed plenty of discussions related to this issue.

Sorry about that :-)

No problem 

[eXpl0it3r]

Feel free to use my unofficial "nightly" builds, till we get some official ones. The RC version seems to be compatible with the release.

Additionally, it's been a while since I wanted to compile cross platform stuff on Windows so I'm not really up to date on what is currently the best way to do it. Should I just go with GCC (mingw?) or even clang instead?

What do you mean with "compile cross platform stuff"?

[kingguru]

What do you mean with "compile cross platform stuff"?

Sorry, bad wording.

I simply meant that it's been a while since I had to write C++ code that should compile and run on more than one platform, so I'm not sure what is currently the best ways to do that when it comes to choosing a compiler chain.

Thanks a lot for your work on the nightly builds. I'll look into to that.

[Hapax]

C++ code that should compile and run on more than one platform[...]I'm not sure what is currently the best ways to do that when it comes to choosing a compiler chain.

If you are already using Visual Studio, there's no reason to change in order to write cross-platform code. Simply choose an Empty Project and start from scratch.