Build Scilab with Visual Studio 2010 SP1
step 1
You need:
- Windows XP or more (see VS 2010 - requirements)
- Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (with x64 component for 64 bit version)
- Intel C++/Fortran compilers 11.1 (update 4 or more)
SVN client (http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads)
GIT client (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list)
Checkout the Scilab sources (see instructions here).
Creates a d:\GIT-scilab-master directory
d: md d:\GIT-scilab-master cd d:\GIT-scilab-master git clone git://git.scilab.org/scilab cd scilab\scilab
Please notice that Visual Studio C++ 2010 requires to build that sources are on a NTFS partition.
Step 3
Checkout the Windows prerequisites for compilation in d:\GIT-scilab-master (x86 version)
md Prerequirements cd Prerequirements svn export --username anonymous --password Scilab svn://svn.scilab.org/scilab/trunk/Dev-Tools/SE/Prerequirements/Windows
or x64 version
md Prerequirements cd Prerequirements svn export --username anonymous --password Scilab svn://svn.scilab.org/scilab/trunk/Dev-Tools/SE/Prerequirements/Windows_x64
Step 4
Copy the content of "Prerequirements" directory in "scilab" (d:\GIT-scilab-master\scilab\scilab) directory.
Step 5
Build Scilab source code in Visual C++ 2010.