building OpenMesh/D

[Bill Baxter]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Jilani wrote:
>> I have tried to build OpenMesh/D but in vain. I did (from the dos 
>> command line):
>> dsss build
>> But the sytem (*), after a while, hangs infinetely with 100% CPU 
>> usage. What
>> am I missing?
>> Thank you.
>> Ji
>>
>> (*)
>> - Intel P4 2.4 GH with  512 MB of RAM
>> - Windows 2000 Pro
>> - dmd 1.021
> 
> I think I can confirm that.  Did you get the big linker line to print 
> out first?  That's what I get, then it seems to hang.
> 
> My advice would be to not attempt to compile it as a .lib.
> It's almost completely templates anyway, so there's not much the 
> compiler can know to instantiate.  I just check in a change that makes 
> it a dsss sourcelibrary rather than library.  So now dsss build will 
> work (but it won't really do much :-)
> 
> I actually haven't tried to build it as a lib for a while.  Thanks for 
> pointing it out.
> 
> Instead you should try compiling the demo programs in OpenMesh/Apps ... 
> but looks like those have been broken by some recent changes I made. 
> Hang on a bit while I fix those.

Ok, should be fixed now.  The OpenMesh/Apps/Decimating should build out 
of the box.
The GLViewer example depends on the dead Helix project for Quaternion 
and Matrix44 (http://www.dsource.org/helix).

I should probably write some Quaternion / Matrix templates that work 
together nicely with the open mesh Vector class...

--bb