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When I try to run the sample programs it pops up a window asking what renderer I want to use. There are no options.

I've built CEGUI in visual studio 10, got the basic tutorials working and my own program just fine. Now I want to do some more stuff and I thought looking through the samples would be a good step.

config.lua :
-- Renderers
OGRE_RENDERER = true

-- Samples
SAMPLES_OGRE = true

SAMPLES_INCLUDED = true

They all build just fine.

I've built in debug config to start.
I found the exe files in CEGUI-SDK-0.7.5-cv10/bin along with the other built files.
Sample_FirstWindow_d.exe gets as far as asking what renderer I want - none are listed.
I've copied the exe file to a different VS10 project folder where I have a working exe. In that project folder are copies of the CEGUI dlls and the OGRE dlls. Same result.

I've looked through the headers in samples/common but the config headers don't seem to have any options which would obviously fix this.

Please help, thanks!

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29/04/2011 12:57:00 (Std) ---- Version 0.7.5 (Build: Apr 25 2011 Debug Microsoft Windows MSVC++ 10.0 32 bit) ----
29/04/2011 12:57:00 (Std) ---- Renderer module is: CEGUI::OgreRenderer - Official OGRE based 2nd generation renderer module. ----
29/04/2011 12:57:00 (Std) ---- XML Parser module is: CEGUI::ExpatParser - Official expat based parser module for CEGUI ----
29/04/2011 12:57:00 (Std) ---- Image Codec module is: SILLYImageCodec - Official SILLY based image codec ----
29/04/2011 12:57:00 (Std) ---- Scripting module is: None ----
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I didn't think there was a config.lua in the SDKs If it's there (and was not added by the user), it should not have been included in the package.

I think in order to have this work you need to instead edit the Samples/common/include/config.h file - it contains definitions generated from when the SDK was originally built. You will likely have to add appropriate search paths for headers and libs and also appropriate libs to the SampleHelper project so that it can find all the things it needs.

CE.

hi,

I'm having the same problem like the original post

I built CEGUI 0.7.5 and OGRE 1.7.3 and I can run the tutorial from Ogre as well

I edited config.lua



also CEGUISamplesConfig.h



I noticed the #define CEGUI_SAMPLES_USE_OGRE was originally in __APPLE__

so I pasted one outside of it and compiled

there were some errors, but after I moved a couple of dll's and libs around ( specifically OgreMain_d.dll and OIS_d.dll into the CEGUI bin folder, but I think this is irrelevant)

then the drop down menu changed to Ogre dialog, which still showed no options



I noticed in another thread you said that when there's no options available, it means no Renderer Module was built

May I ask when did we build Renderer Module?

For Ogre all we built was CEGUIOgreRenderer along with CEGUIBase, and CEGUIFalagardWRBase, CEGUIExpatParser

I didn't noticed anything about Renderer Modules

So I tried tracing the CEGUISampleHelper project and see what I can find

here it is in CEGuiSample.cpp



which CEGUI_SAMPLES_USE_OGRE is only defined in CEGUISamplesConfig.h

so it would mean that if I defined CEGUI_SAMPLES_USE_OGRE in that header

the option would be available right?

Can you enlighten me what I missed?

In 0.7.x the settings will be in cegui/include/config.h and not CEGUISamplesConfig.h.

There are settings in config.lua to control the build of the CEGUIOgreRenderer module. Please see here: http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/ ... reRenderer

Once you get it all building, you'll also need to ensure you have a plugins.cfg file for Ogre to start up correctly.

CE.

Hi, thanks for the reply

do you mean config.h.in ?

or config.h ?

// config.h - generated by premake
// do not edit by hand, instead edit config.lua and regenerate
// it is important that you use premake recreate this file if changing xml parsers or codecs for the static builds
#define CEGUI_WITH_EXPAT 1
#define CEGUI_HAS_FREETYPE
#define CEGUI_CODEC_SILLY 1
#define CEGUI_DEFAULT_IMAGE_CODEC SILLYImageCodec
#define CEGUI_HAS_DEFAULT_LOGGER
#define CEGUI_HAS_PCRE_REGEX
#define CEGUI_HAS_MINIZIP_RESOURCE_PROVIDER
#define CEGUI_FALAGARD_RENDERER
#define CEGUI_TINYXML_H "ceguitinyxml/tinyxml.h"
#define CEGUI_DEFAULT_XMLPARSER ExpatParser
#define CEGUI_TINYXML_NAMESPACE CEGUITinyXML
#define CEGUI_LUA_VER 51
#if defined(_DEBUG) || defined(DEBUG)
# define CEGUI_HAS_BUILD_SUFFIX
# define CEGUI_BUILD_SUFFIX "_d"
#endif

what do I do with it?

Oh and I did read through the link you gave me, but it gave no directions of how I might compile the samples or edit the configs to get the renderer modules built

oh, and once edited, should I rebuild whole CEGUI or just the sample solution?

reason I'm asking is because I edited config.h, added

#define CEGUI_SAMPLES_USE_OGRE 1

to it, but after compiling SampleHelper, it didn't make any difference in the Sample_demo6 or any other samples, still no option

In the past when I had done this, I generally set the option to include the samples in the main solution - perhaps things are different when using the separate samples solution? I'm not certain.

All I ever did was edit config.lua, set up the paths as described in that Wiki article, set OGRE_RENDERER and SAMPLES_OGRE to true, run premake (or the batch file) to generate the project files and build...

CE.

Thanks for the reply CE.

but

I still have no luck compiling the samples

I dont know if building CEGUI multiple times made the project solution's property sheets' directories all jumbled up or not,

but even after I've tried and linked everything required up, going through all those directory searching and fixing the property sheets,

it compiled, but with the same result = no options available

I even tried it on another computer in my lab to meeting the same problems all over.

thanks for the time in reading and helping CE,

but I think i'm done

the ride was surprisingly educational, but guess its still too rough for me

- Max