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This task is to compile the latest BRL-CAD sources (from a repository checkout) using Microsoft's Visual Studio Express compiler.

Compiling on different operating systems, hardware, and compilers regularly can help improve long-term maintainability. BRL-CAD is regularly built with Microsoft Visual Studio (the professional one you have to pay for), GCC, LLVM, and a number of other compilers. One we don't get to test very often is the free Express compiler (only available for Windows)

You'll need to download BRL-CAD from an SVN checkout, download the compiler from Microsoft, and download + run CMake. Compile BRL-CAD using that compiler and keep notes of everything you do along the way. Record all the steps you take and report back any failures or success.

You will probably want to use these flags when you run CMake:

• CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
• BRLCAD_BUNDLED_LIBS=ON
• BRLCAD_ENABLE_STRICT=OFF

Resources:

• http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling
• http://www.cmake.org/
• http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads

SUBMIT a complete build log and your notes documenting everything you did.