Compiling on Windows Guide - Feedback needed

[Farbarn_Jr]

Hi, I'm new to compiling nml files. I've followed Trnsportman's guide, passed the path checks with flying colours. Compiled the example swedish rails grf in a tar. Now I' trying to compile the latest nightly from frissrails, which I'm going to modify into something like a nutracks for the subarctic. (personal use only)

I'm stuck at the moment GIMP has to turn the sprite xcf file into a png file, n: command not found. Further on the python (both 2.7 and 3.x) fails. I tried to change some of the scripting with no luck. Anyone any comments, I'd like to learn more about coding and development.

At the moment, I'm working on a Windows 8.1 machine. If needed I can switch to Ubuntu/Linux Mint using a VM.

[Eddi]

GIMP is not part of nml. if a GRF relies on this program, you must install it separately.

[Farbarn_Jr]

Sorry to mention it, but Transportman's guide mentions GIMP as one of the programs you have to install and I've followed the guide almost to the letter, and a little beyond. It could be that it is because GIMP nowadays is GIMP 2 (yes, I've removed the space in the directory and thus in PATH).

My best guess - for what it's worth - is that scripting is outdated due to evolving auxiliary programs like GIMP(2). However I'm definitely not an expert at using GIMP or PS.

[Eddi]

my guess is that some path has changed, and thus cannot be found even though it is installed.

[Transportman]

Sorry to mention it, but Transportman's guide mentions GIMP as one of the programs you have to install

My guide does not mention GIMP as one of the programs you have to install. The full list of programs you need is:

The following programs will be installed on your computer during this guide:
*NML
*TortoiseHg
*Python (version 2.7.x)
*MinGW and MSYS

[Alberth]

Python 2.7?
NML uses Python 3 (at least anything recent)

You may want to update that.

[Farbarn_Jr]

Sorry Transportman, GIMP was mentioned by the Friss-lads if anyone would like to build from source. Their requirements did mention Numpy and SciPy too. Scipy doesn't install with python3.x just yet... (docs say otherwise...) Numpy appears to be happy.

Still figuring out how to get it working. I'll try to edit the scipting if I got the time to figure it all out.

[Transportman]

Python 2.7?
NML uses Python 3 (at least anything recent)

You may want to update that.

Nope, it is correct. The Python 2.7 is for the version-number script (which does not work with Python 3), and NML comes with its own Python on Windows, so it all works fine

[Transportman]

Just a small update, for Windows 10 with the Anniversary update it is possible to use Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing to run bash from Windows itself. I just spend the morning getting it to work (and having to thrash the whole thing several times).

I will write a guide next week so that others can also set it up. Then my old laptop also has the update, so that I have a clean environment to work on.

[Transportman]

Shameless triple post, I finished the guide for W10 Anniversary update, it can be found here. Any feedback is appreciated.

I have no exact timings available, but the compile time for of the 2cc Trains In NML has been greatly reduced. My laptop on which I previously used the compile set-up as described in the old guide, took 5-10 minutes to compile the set (if not longer), while with the new set-up it only took 2 minutes and 15 seconds, even beating the DevZone compile farm by 15 seconds.

[Sylf]

Nicely done.