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Looks like we have msitools over here. Will need to look into it

Looks like the fee is only required if the organization is making money so we should be good for now. 🙂

The biggest blocker to having support for other compilers at the moment is the generated code. VS uses its Class Wizard to generate it which isn’t supported by other setups.…[Read more]

MSIX is for the Windows Store as opposed to a standard downloadable installer. May be something to consider down the road, however. It would require more work to get things running and I’m not entirely sure how to set the CI up for it. We can certainly add it to the tracker, though, as a long-term goal. It took Gimp years before they submitted it…[Read more]

I have yet to watch Sweeney Todd. Missed out on the stage version, too. 🙁

Really need to fix that

Florida oranges aren’t doing so hot lately. Citrus greening is hitting the state pretty hard, even home grown ones. On the bright side, the fig trees are doing great

I generally don’t have issues with the wildlife beating me edibles in the wild:…[Read more]

It looks like you can use wine cmd <batchfile>.bat to run it under wine but I don’t currently have Wine installed.

Should run the same on Windows server as it does on regular Windows. Just a thought: any plans on a PowerShell version? It looks like Microsoft is trying to replace the batchfile language with PowerShell scripts.

Yeah, we may need to forgo CPack as its feature set seems rather limiting. Its Inno support does look better than its WiX support, even though it is very much in the early stages (the docs definitely need some proof-reading). Wouldn’t give us the pretty MSI integration but the docs on using WiX (even the ones on the official Firegiant site) aren’t…[Read more]

CMake sets up their shortcuts via template files: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/tree/master/Utilities/Release/WiX?ref_type=heads

Not yet sure how they do it, I’m still analyzing things. It would help if this stuff were documented but alas.

Gimp, on the other hand, uses Inno Setup (as does LOOT) but Inno doesn’t create MSI files, which…[Read more]

CPack has an option, CPACK_WIX_PATCH_FILE, to add a WiX XML fragment to the files. We may be able to leverage that feature. Will take a look at that article when I get the chance and will poke around the web some as well. 🙂

Okay, made those changes: https://github.com/deathssoul/MWEdit/actions/runs/18993040962

Perfect! Will get that fixed and then we can do a final test before the version bump and the update script test 🙂

No idea how to get the executable in the root of the MWEdit directory using CPack but I’ll add it to the wishlist!

Did the shortcuts work before? We definitely want the options. Apologies, the shortcuts are probably the least documented part of CPack.

Does the license show up properly now?

Okay, here’s a new attempt: https://github.com/deathssoul/MWEdit/actions/runs/18967509920

It should put all files in the bin directory (will add a note to look for the extra data files elsewhere on the tracker later) and hopefully it fixes the issues with desktop shortcuts and Start Menu entries. I also changed the LICENSE file to LICENSE.txt as…[Read more]

Thanks. That’s probably due to me using the DATA file type. The install system on CMake is poorly documented for anything other than *nix, sadly. I may be able to force them into the same directory, will look into it. Eventually, we may want a manifest file to go with the executable so that we can put the DLLs wherever we want. Does Microsoft…[Read more]

Linux doesn’t support Batch files but Shell syntax is similar: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

Most of the basic commands have similar versions on Linux, too. May not be too difficult to put together a Shell script, as well? 🙂

Crumpets. The license should be getting imported. I’ll have to take a closer look at the commands. I definitely have that option set but I may need to update the file format

What’s in the Config directory? That’s new.

Are the DLLs anywhere? May need to tweak the directory layout. What’s the directory structure look like? They’re definitely…[Read more]

We now have an installer in the MSI format: https://github.com/deathssoul/MWEdit/actions/runs/18903584084/artifacts/4403855739

If possible, could you do a test run and report back as to its behavior? I have no clue if it’s set up properly. 😛

We now have a 64-bit build of MWEdit. Swapping out the 32-bit version of DevIL did the trick. Now I just need to clean everything up and we can decide on a build system. The packaging script needs fixing: apparently, GitHub Actions preserves the directory structure during packaging so we have an unusable archive without moving the files around…[Read more]

And for the holidays: https://www.trainworld.com/bachmann-00724-ho-jingle-bell-express-christmas-starter-train-set.html

Lots of possibilities with model trains!

That was quick! Better keep some in reserve! 😛

Oh, got the two for her! When she was visiting my mom once, she fell in love with chewing on them so I got her a couple for here. She…[Read more]

Couldn’t find many scaled power plants available for model railroads (found a few coal plants) and couldn’t find any nuclear power plants that are still available. Only thing I could find was this discontinued one. There are a few blueprint files available for 3D printers, however. Granted, that requires a 3D printer 😛

He really likes the toy!…[Read more]

Okay, here’s the download link for the 1.8.0 SDK: https://gigenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openil/DevIL%20Windows%20SDK/1.8.0/DevIL-Windows-SDK-1.8.0.zip

That’s a direct link and wget grabs it without issues so we should be able to plug that into the CI and have it grab it and unpack it for automated builds. It includes both the Unicode…[Read more]

VS with the usual SDKs (make sure you grab the C++20 runtime as that’s what we’re targeting right now but may switch to C++23 later) with the optional MFC package, along with Git so you don’t need to keep grabbing the tarballs and CMake (at least initially). From my investigating, MFC is the only optional Windows component in use. Visual Studio…[Read more]