V: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'glfw3.lib'

[iperov]

I recreated the issue, because https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/5036 was flooded by spam bot.

V version: 0.1.27
OS: Windows 7

What did you do?

1) Downloaded windows build.
2) v examples\tetris\tetris.v

What did you expect to see?

expected to build the example

What did you see instead?

errors:

cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-mwindows'
tetris.tmp.c

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'glfw3.lib'

so where is zero dependency or easy dependency manager paradigm?

[JalonSolov]

The download package is a bit too far out of date. Do a v up to catch up to the latest.

Then make sure the directories with 'glfw3.dll' and 'freetype.dll' are in your path, or copy both of them to the tetris directory, if you want it to run after you build it.

[iperov]

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\v>v up
Updating V...
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Nothing working :D

and as user I don't know what is 'glfw3.dll' and 'freetype.dll'
You declare easy dependency manager paradigm.
So where is it?

[iperov]

also you(VLang) declared full static linking of libraries. So why I should care of .dlls ?

Seems like the product is very raw. Should I wait new release?

[JalonSolov]

At this point, waiting for a new release might be the best idea.

To get this working, you have to do several manual steps that are not written out in the instructions, so it's hard to know what to do. :-\

The goal is definitely to have full static linking, but as you have observed, there are still some raw edges.

[spytheman]

@iperov unfortunately, there is no "make everything ok" button in v either ;-) .

For the time being, you are better of just cloning https://github.com/vlang/v/ in a folder, then running make in it, after that v up would work for you.

[spytheman]

As for the original topic, the tetris example currently depends on freetype for font rendering.
You can install it with v setup-freetype, which is clearly described in the README file:

[iperov]

I installed freetype.
How about glfw for windows :)

[iperov]

there is no "make everything ok" button

haha, but I would like to see that.

[spytheman]

glfw is already bundled in the thirdparty folder (it is much smaller than freetype), and should work .
Check if you have thirdparty/glfw/msvc/glfw3.lib if you are using msvc, and thirdparty/glfw/glfw3.dll .

[iperov]

D:\DevelopUnsync\v>make
Building V
Cloning vc...
Attempting to build v.c with GCC...
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
Attempting to build v.c  with MSVC...
Using x86 Build Tools...
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
You do not appear to have a GCC installation on your PATH and also do not have a
n MSVC installation
 - this means that you cannot bootstrap a V installation at this time...

[iperov]

also my processor is x64
why it is using x86?

>echo %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%
x86

[iperov]

I removed theese strings from make.bat

if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "x86" (
    echo Using x86 Build Tools...
    set VsWhereDir=%ProgramFiles%
    set HostArch=x86
)

Build ok.

Build tetris ok.
But still no static linking.

[medvednikov]

As the readme says, dynamically linked glfw is a temporary dependency. It will be removed once migration to Sokol is complete.

Freetype also won't be needed as stb_truetype will be supported.

[vitalyster]

@iperov in order to link glfw statically you need to have static version of its lib, and you need to rebuild it from source (and all of its dependencies) because they don't provide static version in binary releases.

[iperov]

@vitalyster

and you need to rebuild it from source

seriously?
Look at the main page.

[medvednikov]

Glfw is not a V project.