drcrane / bslscripter-vs2017

Project to Compile TI's BSL-Scripter with Visual Studio Community 2017

Compile TI BSL-Scripter from Source with VC++2017

The code here should compile properly with the Community version of Visual Studio 2017 available for free from Microsoft. For usage please see the TI documents and INSTRUCTIONS.md in this directory.

This project includes everything required to compile the BSL-Scripter.exe file for Win32 except the boost headers.

Dependencies Included

The binary dependencies are included for convenience, it took a long time to compile boost on my machine and I ended up with much more than I needed!

From boost (1_69_0) the libraries included here are:

• filesystem
• program_options

From libusb 1.0.22 (very easy to compile)

• libusb-1.0

From libhid

• hidapi.lib
• hid.lib

Compile Boost (but only filesystem and program_options)

Since all that is required for a Windows build of BSL-Scripter is filesystem and program_options is makes sense to compile only those parts of the boost library. From a Visual Studio 2017 command prompt:

cd \Users\User\workspace\boost_1_69_0
bootstrap.bat
.\b2 toolset=msvc-14.1 --with-system --with-filesystem ^
    --with-program_options toolset=msvc-14.1 address-model=32 ^
    runtime-link=static threading=multi variant=debug,release

The .\b2 line should be all the same line, the ^ characters allow multiline entry in the Windows Command Prompt.

The above command will build three libraries in 32bit release and debug mode. The library files and headers will be in \Users\User\workspace\boost_1_69_0\stage which can be used in your Visual Studio configuration.

References

• How to use Boost in Visual Studio 2010
• Invoking b2
• Boost: Getting Started with Windows
• Peabody's CP2101 Invoke Script

Setup Directories for Boost Headers

If you have not already, download boost (you need the headers):

• boost 1.69.0

Open the properties for the project by right clicking on BSL-Scripter and clicking Properties, then in VC++ directories change this line:

C:\Users\User\workspace4\boost_1_69_0;$(SolutionDir)ThirdParty\include;$(IncludePath)

To match where your boost was extracted to. All the libraries are included in this repository for this version of boost (probably not advisable to mix versions).

Now the code should compile, at least for "Debug" mode. To compile in Release mode the same steps must be taken when the Release mode is active.