From f1004d00ad2750aab6eb019d3e56f942fc93eac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Kremer <mkremer@cs.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:15:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Edited notes on how to build OpenMesh in Visual Studio 2008.

git-svn-id: http://www.openmesh.org/svnrepo/OpenMesh/trunk@294 fdac6126-5c0c-442c-9429-916003d36597
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 Doc/misc.docu | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/misc.docu b/Doc/misc.docu
index 6c4257b0..7f6500d5 100644
--- a/Doc/misc.docu
+++ b/Doc/misc.docu
@@ -121,14 +121,19 @@ Install the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) from <a href="http://glew.s
 <li> Extract OpenMesh source code. </li>
 <li> Get all required libraries and install them ( including headers! ).</li>
 <li> Get cmake for windows from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html <li>
-<li> Start the cmake gui and open the OpenMesh toplevel directory </li>
-<li> Choose a build directory</li>
-<li> Click on configure .... If any libraries are left unconfigured, you can adjust the path in the ui. Rerun configure until everything is configured correctly</li>
+<li> Start the cmake gui and open the OpenMesh toplevel directory as source directory </li>
+<li> Choose a build directory (e.g. create a directory called "build" in OpenMesh's root folder) </li>
+<li> Click on configure .... If any libraries are left unconfigured, you can adjust the path manually. Rerun configure until everything is configured correctly.
+     Attention: Some build variables are only visible in advanced view mode. Select Visual Studio 9 2008 as
+     generator. </li>
 <li> Click generate to create the visual studio project files </li>
-<li> You can now find a Visual Studio solution file in the <b>build</b> directory you chose in cmake </li>
+<li> You can now find a Visual Studio solution file (OpenMesh.sln) in the <b>build</b> directory you chose in cmake </li>
 <li> Now you can build OpenMesh from within Visual Studio using the newly created project file. </li>
 </ul>
 
+Note: Set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable to "Release" if you want OpenMesh to be built as release.
+In Visual Studio 2008 choose "Release" in the appropriate select box and build the solution afterwards.
+
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