Overview

Upgrade MediaPortal solutions to be able to compile with Visual Studio 2015.

Description of Change

If you already compile MediaPortal, you need to change the

WINDOWS_SDK

system variable to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1

.

You also need to do a force update for submodule. It will take the latest source from libbluray repository to the last version compatible with Visual Studio 2013. Just right click on you MP1 folder with TortoiseGIT and select Submodule Update and we are good to go.

To build the updated C++ solution, you need the following installed (on a clean Windows 7 64-bit):

• VS2015 Community Edition (this installs Platform SDK 8.1 as well)
• DirectX SDK June 2010 (need this to get all the DX9 stuff)

• In Visual Studio 2015, the MFC library for multibyte character encoding (MBCS) is included in the Visual C++ setup components. Visual C++ and MFC are optional install configurations in Visual Studio setup. To make sure that MFC is installed, choose Custom in setup, and under Programming Languages, make sure that Visual C++ and Microsoft Foundation Classes for C++ are selected. If you have already installed Visual Studio, you will be prompted to install Visual C++ and/or MFC when you attempt to create an MFC project.

  You need the multibyte DLLs in order to build an MFC project in Visual Studio 2015 that has the Character Set property set to Use Multi-Byte Character Set or Not Set.

• vsyasm 1.2.0

YASM

Note: Use vyasm 1.2.0. Version 1.3.0 has a known problem with case sensitivity using the 'BuildCustomizations' scripts.

1. Unzip

   vsyasm.exe

   from the previously downloaded package (based on your OS) to your Visual Studio installation directory:
   32-bit OS:

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

   64-bit OS:

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

2. Copy

   vsyasm.props

   ,

   vsyasm.targets

   and

   vsyasm.xml

   to

   C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\BuildCustomizations

Additional Information and References