CWE: Getting Started Question

[Lyrositor]

Well a core point about the GoW wiki is that it will NOT teach the use of programs used in the creation of Ages, development, etc.. So this includes teaching C++, Blender, Visual Studio... and Git.
But don't worry. I learned Git on the fly as I was experimenting with Plasma. Just make a few quick searches on the Internet and you'll have everything you need. Here are the basics:
1. When installed on Windows, it should add a right-click context entry for the "Git bash", which is a terminal capable of interpreting Git commands.
2. Common commands are: "git clone" which clones a remote repository, "git commit" which takes the changes you've made locally and registers them and "git push" which pushes your commited changes remotely (to a repository on which you have write permissions).
3. Github is a hosting platform for Git repos, and a very convenient one, thanks to a lot of neat "social" features - but you can absolutely host your own Git server, at the cost of a loss of more advanced features.

[Paradox]

A good place to get an intro to git is at http://git-scm.com/documentation, and you can run through the workflow at http://try.github.com/.

[PeterC]

One thing the CWE: Getting Started page doesn't state is what things I need Git to get.

[Lyrositor]

It does, look:

The sources for CWE (also called Plasma) can be found on Github. To download them, use Git as follows:
1. Start git-bash in a folder where the source repository should be downloaded.
2. Enter:
git clone https://github.com/H-uru/Plasma

[PeterC]

OK, got through the CMake instructions. Apparently no problems. But in VC++...

========== Build: 97 succeeded, 3 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

First error I can find in the output is:

82>------ Build started: Project: pfPython, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
82> Building Custom Rule H:/Working/Plasma/Sources/Plasma/FeatureLib/pfPython/CMakeLists.txt
82> CMake does not need to re-run because H:\Working\Plasma\Build\Sources\Plasma\FeatureLib\pfPython\CMakeFiles\generate.stamp is up-to-date.
82> Pch.cpp
80> plLayerAVI.cpp
80> plLayerBink.cpp
82> cyAccountManagement.cpp
82>H:\Working\Plasma\Sources\Plasma\FeatureLib\pfPython\cyAccountManagement.cpp(73): error C3861: 'PyInt_FromLong': identifier not found
82>H:\Working\Plasma\Sources\Plasma\FeatureLib\pfPython\cyAccountManagement.cpp(74): error C3861: 'PyString_FromString': identifier not found

Is it the code or me or what?

[Lyrositor]

It would seem that you didn't set the appropriate Python include directory in CMake.

Edit: Actually, it looks like you have the wrong version of Python. Make sure it's 2.7.

[PeterC]

Yes, it was. Thank you for all your hard work.