Building with VS2022

[trav3l3r]

Good afternoon. I recently tried building bgfx from the quickstart guide with vs2022 by modifying the makefile to include the options as follows:

vs2022-debug64: .build/projects/vs2022 ## Build - vs2022 x64 Release
	devenv .build/projects/vs2022/bgfx.sln /Build "Debug|x64"
vs2022-release64: .build/projects/vs2022 ## Build - vs2022 x64 Release
	devenv .build/projects/vs2022/bgfx.sln /Build "Release|x64"

I'm using the vs2022 devenv and targeting Windows 10. The solution appeared to build without errors; however, every example except for 00-helloworld and 02-metaballs seems to crash immediately after loading. Can bgfx be built with this version of VS? Do I need to install vs2017 and rebuild with that devenv?

[pezcode]

VS 2022 works just fine although I haven't tried the makefile. If you don't mind compiling through the VS IDE, try just running genie --with-examples --with-tools vs2022 and then open the .sln manually. No crashes 👀

[trav3l3r]

That's what I thought would work, yeah. I tried opening the vs2022 solution with VS 2022 and doing a clean compile on everything. Unfortunately, it still seems to be only loading a black screen before immediately closing.

I went ahead and tried building with vs2017, which seems to run the examples successfully, if that tells you anything. However, the genie only generated the 17-stresstest and 25-c99Debug examples. 🙃 Is there another command line argument I need to pass it?

[pezcode]

If a project file already exists it's not re-generated and listed there.

You might be opening the wrong files, so just to be sure: open bgfx.sln, then inside the examples folder in VS right-click whichever example you want to run, "Set as Startup Project" and then hit F5 to debug. That should work out of the box.

[pezcode]

Just realized that your issue might be that you're double-clicking the .exe files in Windows explorer. That won't work because the examples expect to be run with the current working directory set to examples/runtime since they read shaders and other resources from there. Running from inside VS sets that up automatically.

[trav3l3r]

You might be opening the wrong files, so just to be sure: open bgfx.sln, then inside the examples folder in VS right-click whichever example you want to run, "Set as Startup Project" and then hit F5 to debug. That should work out of the box.

Ahhh, that fixed it. I was attempting to run the make-compiled examples from the file explorer as you said. Thank you!

I know this is a slightly different issue now (and I can create a different topic tomorrow for it if necessary) - but the genie only generated those two examples for the vs2017 one. Any clue why that would be? I used genie --with-examples vs2017 :