Is it possible to use Cinder with VS2013?

Question

Is it possible to use Cinder with VS2013?

From the official Cinder web site, the download page lists only VS2010 and VS2012 support:

Is there some other Cinder distribution that can be downloaded, and it's ready for use with VS2013?

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EDIT

Someone in the comments suggested to try the VS2012 download with VS2013. I tried creating a simple project with TinderBox, and opened the solution in VS2013. After the usual VS2013's solution upgrade dialog-box, I tried to build, and I got the following errors:

1>------ Build started: Project: CinderTestVS2013, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  CinderTestVS2013App.cpp
1>  Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results
1>cinder_d.lib(gl.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_MSC_VER': value '1700' doesn't match value '1800' in CinderTestVS2013App.obj
1>cinder_d.lib(Renderer.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_MSC_VER': value '1700' doesn't match value '1800' in CinderTestVS2013App.obj
1>cinder_d.lib(Window.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_MSC_VER': value '1700' doesn't match value '1800' in CinderTestVS2013App.obj
...

lots of similar errors ...
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1>C:\Temp\CinderTests\CinderTestVS2013\vc11\Debug\CinderTestVS2013.exe : fatal error LNK1319: 55 mismatches detected
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Answer 1

I downloaded the dev branch source code from here:

https://github.com/BanTheRewind/Cinder/tree/dev

and built it using VS2013 (there was actually a file missing from Boost, and I downloaded it from here; after adding that file, compilation was successful).

Since there seemed to be no TinderBox working "out of the box" with VS2013, I used the "official" TinderBox (which can target VS2012), created a project using that TinderBox, and then opened this VS2012 project with VS2013.

After the conversion completed, I updated the references to include directories (C/C++ | General | Additional Include Directories) and library directories (Linker | Additional Library Directories and Linker | Input | Additional Dependencies) to point to the files of the aforementioned VS2013 dev branch.

The simple code I tested ran correctly.

However, is not as smooth as using the officially supported VS2012.
Looking forward to have an official VS2013 support (including TinderBox).

Answer 2

There's a work in progress branch with VS2013 binaries on GitHub here: https://github.com/cinder/Cinder/tree/boost_155

See also these relevant forum posts on Cinder's forum, where I'd recommend asking this type of question for a faster response:

• https://forum.libcinder.org/topic/cinder-8-5-0-with-vs2013-and-boost-1-55-0
• https://forum.libcinder.org/topic/contribute-now-later-using-vs2013-and-boost-1-54-with-0-8-6-dev-branch