Supported version of Visual Studio

zobbo · February 12, 2020, 8:12pm

Hi, I haven’t used Panda for a while so I’m not sure what version of Visual Studio is supported with the current Panda libs. I’m guessing it’s not 2019. Can someone advise?

Thanks,
Zobbo

zobbo · February 12, 2020, 8:21pm

Also sorry to mix subjects, but is the Bullet integration still maintained? If not what is the recommended physics engine these days?

serega-kkz · February 12, 2020, 10:20pm

Regarding VS, this information is listed on github, the bullet is now the main physics engine.

zobbo · February 12, 2020, 10:32pm

Thanks Serega, I wasn’t aware of the GitHub page I’ll try building with 2019.

rdb · February 15, 2020, 8:16pm

Hi there, long time no see! Welcome back!

I think 2015, 2017 or 2019 should all work fine.

zobbo · April 12, 2020, 2:39pm

Hi rdb, good to see you are still holding the fort I’ll take a look at 2019, probably tomorrow. Thanks.

zobbo · April 13, 2020, 7:16pm

Actually I don’t need to build the SDK do I? Will the pre-built SDK support VS2019 out of the box?

serega-kkz · April 13, 2020, 10:17pm

@zobbo think the answer has already been given.

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/cpp/introduction/running-your-program

rdb · April 13, 2020, 11:35pm

The pre-built one should work, because VC 2019 (14.2) is only a minor upgrade over VC 2015 (14.0), so they are compatible.

zobbo · April 14, 2020, 12:21am

Thanks guys. I’ll give the SDK a go in 2019, failing that I’ll have a go at building it.
Cheers.

serega-kkz · April 14, 2020, 1:03am

I can add that I specifically followed the instructions from the manual, and I got the Panda window on the first attempt on the PANDA3D-1.10.6-x64 SDK.

zobbo · April 14, 2020, 8:59pm

Yeah getting a lot of linker errors. I’ve missed something.

zobbo · April 14, 2020, 9:05pm

Yes I did, didn’t paste in the libs properly to VS. All working now. The manual is spot on (though some subtle differences in VS2019).

Cheers,

zobbo · April 14, 2020, 10:25pm

I found a bit of an issue with the C++ documentation. It seems a bit outdated. It tells you to use the third party tools to use bullet. Which I did, but I was getting a ton of linker errors. So I realised that bullet is now integrated into the SDK using libpandabullet.lib. So the documentation is a bit confusing. Sorry to nitpick.

It’s here: https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/cpp/programming/physics/bullet/hello-world

Compiling C++ Panda3D with Bullet code

To compile a Panda3D C++ program with Bullet, you will need to link directly against the Bullet libraries.

These are not included in the Panda3D SDK, but are included in a separate “thirdparty tools” download on the download page. You will need to add the appropriate Bullet include and library directories to your compiler settings.

I have to say though that the new forums and documentation software is very good.