Building SFML for Visual Studio 2015

[Reborn]

Hi,
i try to use Visual Studio 2015 tools to compile SFML. I do that by using cmake:

cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" C:\Libraries\SFML-2.3.1
nmake

But no matter whether i try to build SFML by nmake or by a sln, i allways getting the following unresolved symbols:

jpeg.lib(jerror.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _sprintf
jpeg.lib(jerror.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol ___iob_func referenced in function _output_message
jpeg.lib(jmemmgr.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _sscanf referenced in function _jinit_memory_mgr

in sfml-graphics-2.dll.
What i am doing wrong? Are the by SFML provided jpeg.lib incompatible to the VS15 libs?

[kitteh-warrior]

Searching the forums would get you a solution, I believe.
If I recall correctly, Visual C++15 broke the C API?

[Reborn]

I don't find something, but http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=18243.msg131275#msg131275, he obviosly did it. But that's no help for me.

[kitteh-warrior]

http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=18380.msg132242#msg132242

You need to recompile the extlibs.

[Reborn]

Ok that Thread i didn't find about 3 hours googeling.
But god dam compiling jpeglib doesn't seems that easy.

[eXpl0it3r]

You can also use my "nightly" builds for VS 2015RC.

[Reborn]

Thanks eXpl0it3r for that hint.

But i now compiled each of the extlibs by my self. Now the linker can resolve the symbols correctly. But i have two more questions better said 1 question and 1 problem:
1. the question:
if i download a SFML Visual Studio build, for instance the Visual Studio 2013 build, i allways only have 1 build for the extlbis. I don't understand why only one build? What happens if the extlibs are compiled with the option /MD and the Exectuable with /MDd? Whouldn't appear some symbol conflicts in that case?

2. the problem:
if SFML creates a GLContext i get the fallowing warning message in the contex-check-SFML-function:

Warning: The created OpenGL context does not fully meet the settings that were requested
Requested: version = 1.1 ; depth bits = 0 ; stencil bits = 0 ; AA level = 32 ; core = false ; debug = false
Created: version = 4.5 ; depth bits = 0 ; stencil bits = 0 ; AA level = 16 ; core = false ; debug = false

Why OpenGL can't setup the context correctly?

[Klaim]

Last time I compiled SFML with VS2015, the only issue was that the dependencies binaries (which are in the repository???) are built with another compiler, so link errors.

[Reborn]

I wrote that i compiled each of the extlibs by my self. I haven't any linker errors anymore.

[Geheim]

The nightly builds for VS 2015RC work just fine with the community version of VS 2015, without compiling anything yourself. Thanks to eXpl0it3r, to keep them updated!

[zerOpRiME]

Unfortunately using the nightly build did not resolve my issues- I still get vcruntime140 errors.

[Mario]

Mind copying the exact error message, if you haven't done so?

[zerOpRiME]

The error message was 'vcruntime140.i386.pdb not loaded'

After some reading I assumed this was due to the vs2015 change in the C runtime libraries that I have read about in other threads.

Unfortunately I have uninstalled vs2015 at this point and am in the process of installing vs2013 to get SFML up and running on my laptop.  I do have some vs2015 debug files saved and I can send them over if they can help (VC++ Minimum Rebuild Dependency File (.idb) and Program Debug Database (.pdb) files).  As you can tell I am a novice so thanks for being patient!

[Geheim]

If you did not change anything from VS and did not build anything yourself (also not the extlibs) it should work just fine, as I tried it with a fresh installation of VS2015 and the 32 bit nightly builds for VS2015RC. Just added the paths for the include and lib folders, plus the linker dependecies as explained in the tutorials, and it worked perfectly.

[zerOpRiME]

Mine worked perfectly as well for certain code- for instance, the code within the VS setup tutorial worked fine.  However when I tried more in depth tutorials such as the link below I started receiving the vcruntime errors.

I have not changed anything in VS nor have I built anything myself.

(the code at the very bottom):
https://riseagain.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/sfml-2-tutorial-introduction/