Need Help! Compiling under windows get ErrorLINK"libpng.lib"

[Paradoxon101]

Hello,
i try to compile OpenTTD on my windows. I use the visual studio 2010 express.

All compiles good but at the End i get a Error (LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "libpng.lib").

What can i do now?

[FooBar]

Did you get the openttd-useful package and link it accordingly? From what I gather you either didn't get it at all, or you didn't link the VC++ directories properly.

These instructions may help: http://wiki.openttd.org/User:Roujin/Mic ... 2B%2B_2010

[Paradoxon101]

Thanks, this Wiki helps.

Now i can compile openttd but i get a error on start: "No available language packs (invalid versions?)".

Can you help me again plz?

[FooBar]

If you didn't make the bundle, you need to gather the required files yourself and put them in the correct directory structure.

What should work is copy openttd.exe from the objs/Win32/Release folder to the bin folder where the rest is[0]. Then preferrably copy the entire bin folder to the place where you want to save this build, to avoid having it overwritten the next time you compile.


[0] Don't hold me to this, I always make the bundle.

[Paradoxon101]

I download the latest stable from here http://www.openttd.org/en/download-stable and replace the openttd.exe with the compiled one, but still the same error

Does this problem also has a wiki entry?

[FooBar]

Yeah... I also didn't tell you to download the latest stable and replace the exe...

The language files of the stable are essentially a year old. It may work with a nightly, but it's still a silly approach. If you compiled the game, you also compiled the language files. You just need to find where they are.

[Paradoxon101]

Ok, sorry, it was only a trial.

Where can I adjust where the languages are created?

[FooBar]

I suppose in the vcproj file of the languages, but I have no idea. But if you move the languages, then you still have the other directories in the wrong place. So why don't you just copy the exe to the bin dir?

[handrake]

Ok, sorry, it was only a trial.

Where can I adjust where the languages are created?

You don't need to care about where they are created. This is what I do to bundle/execute after compiling is done. From openttd directory,

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 make -f Makefile.msvc bundle PLATFORM=WIN32; chmod +r -R *; cp -r bundle/* /cygdrive/d/openttd-bundle; /cygdrive/d/openttd-bundle/openttd 

(I use cygwin so path is in a slightly different format, but you get the idea.)

[Paradoxon101]

So why don't you just copy the exe to the bin dir?

Thanks, that's solved the problem!

[RedEclipse]

Hey guys,

Sorry for gravedig but got same problem. Once was successful and compiled game with a warning, but now constantly getting same error, warning:

Error 3 error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libpng.lib' C:\Users\RedEclipse\Documents\OpenTTD Stuff\Trunk\projects\LINK
Warning 2 warning C4005: 'FACILITY_DIRECTMUSIC' : macro redefinition (..\src\music\dmusic.cpp) c:\users\redeclipse\documents\openttd stuff\openttd essentials\shared\include\dmerror.h 12 1 openttd

VS2013, also used this guide https://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_W ... 2B%2B_2012

What I'm doing wrong?

[Supercheese]

Hey guys,

Sorry for gravedig but got same problem. Once was successful and compiled game with a warning, but now constantly getting same error, warning:

Error 3 error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libpng.lib' C:\Users\RedEclipse\Documents\OpenTTD Stuff\Trunk\projects\LINK
Warning 2 warning C4005: 'FACILITY_DIRECTMUSIC' : macro redefinition (..\src\music\dmusic.cpp) c:\users\redeclipse\documents\openttd stuff\openttd essentials\shared\include\dmerror.h 12 1 openttd

VS2013, also used this guide https://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_W ... 2B%2B_2012

What I'm doing wrong?

Well, the wiki has a solution for your second problem there: https://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_W ... inition.22

[RedEclipse]

I tried, unfortunately doesn't help.

EDIT:

just tried to link libpng.lib via AdditionalDependencies... Not sure if I did it properly, but nothing happened :\

winmm.lib;ws2_32.lib;imm32.lib;libpng.lib;zlibstat.lib;lzo2.lib;liblzma.lib;libfreetype2.lib;icuuc.lib;icuin.lib;icudt.lib;icule.lib;iculx.lib;C:\Users\RedEclipse\Documents\OpenTTD Stuff\OpenTTD Essentials\win32\library\libpng.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)

EDIT2:

Figured out, found typo in Include directories. **** happens

[Gigigonzalez]

Really though, ive used both VS2010 and 2013, and i got these errors by default whenever i didnt include 'openttd essentials' include/library dirs. Got tired of adding manually everytime so i dumped the files in the default VS path dirs so they are always automagically found.

[TadeuszD]

I have problems with OTTD compilation on VS Express 2012 Update 4.
'Debug' configuration works. It generates ~230 linker warnings, but compiled application works fine.
But 'Release' configuration generates compiler internal error:

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7>  ...
7>  Generating code
7>d:\ottd\trunk\src\3rdparty\squirrel\squirrel\squtils.h(36): fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
7>  (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 211)
7>   To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above.
7>  Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++ 
7>   Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
========== Rebuild All: 5 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 skipped ==========

The file squtils.h looks good... Anybody knows the solution of this problem?

[Alberth]

Ask Microsoft to fix the compiler.

"internal error in the compiler" basically means the code you were compiling confused the compiler, and it crashed.

It's comparable to a situation where you type an english sentence in Word, and the editor crashes on it, because it fails to understand what you type. Unlike Word however, a compiler must truely understand what you type, since it has to trasnalate the input into a executable program.

[TadeuszD]

Ask Microsoft to fix the compiler..

Very funny... For me described situation looks like a joke...

Problematic file squtils.h is the part of library, which are not changed by OTTD developers. Or I'm wrong? I downloaded this library from https://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_W ... d_software
Nobody received similar errors during OTTD compilation on Windows?

[planetmaker]

Ask Microsoft to fix the compiler..

Very funny... For me described situation looks like a joke...

Problematic file squtils.h is the part of library, which are not changed by OTTD developers. Or I'm wrong? I downloaded this library from https://wiki.openttd.org/Compiling_on_W ... d_software
Nobody received similar errors during OTTD compilation on Windows?

Not really a joke. Compiler errors do happen and it's not the first compiler error which OpenTTD uncovers or runs into. And it might well be that no-one uses the exact version of the compiler you use, so you might indeed be the first one to encounter it.

Asking Microsoft to fix the error is probably a good idea indeed. How would they know otherwise and fix it for future releases of MSVC?

[Eddy Arfik]

I have problems with OTTD compilation on VS Express 2012 Update 4

Try updating to VS 2013 Express, it compiles 64bit release version for me without errors.

[TadeuszD]

Try updating to VS 2013 Express, it compiles 64bit release version for me without errors.

Thanks. I'll try.