[FYI] VC2017 vcvars64.bat Dev prompt may be needed to build libgdexample on Win8.1

[aurodev]

OS/device including version: Windows 8.1 64bit, 8GB AMD FX 6350 6 core Recent VS2017 install

Dev prompt may be needed to build libgdexample on Win8.1 http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/plugins/gdnative/gdnative-cpp-example.html

Builds successfully from a 64 bit dev prompt via:
Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat

Issue (was): http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/plugins/gdnative/gdnative-cpp-example.html#compiling-the-plugin

Building the example from a regular terminal window presented with: scons platform=windows scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cl /Fosrc\gdexample.obj /c src\gdexample.cpp /TP /nologo -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D_WINDOWS -W3 -GR -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -EHsc -D_DEBUG -MDd /I. /Igodot-cpp\godot_headers /Igodot-cpp\include /Igodot-cpp\include\core /Igodot-cpp\include\gen /Isrc gdexample.cpp C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\include\yvals_core.h(298) : fatal error C1189: #error : STL1001: Unexpected compiler version, expected MSVC 19.15 or newer. scons: *** [src\gdexample.obj] Error 2 scons: building terminated because of errors.

[aurodev]

Btw... Thanks for your work on this!

[BastiaanOlij]

Hmm, yeah that should probably be made clearer in the docs.. I've left 32bit long behind and the examples are all using the 64bit compilers. (sorry for the late response)