Deborah R. Fowler
hcustom on windows
Updated on March 1
2015
Setting up compiling for HDK Code
On Windows you will need to have a
few things in place in order for hcustom to run which depends on
your houdini install.
On my personal computer: ie.
houdini-13.0.582-win64-vc9.exe
The vc9 indicates that it will be using VS 2008 VC
folder and Microsoft SDK's.
1. Install Microsoft Visual Studios 2008.
You can find this on your MyScad on the Resources Tab/MSDN
Software Downloads (this download may take time - on my previous
page I mention the download did not work. I tried it 3/1/2014
and had success but it was slow). See note
here about future versions.
- Follow the instructions and once this has completed you will have an iso file which you then burn to disc (I used Windows Disc Image Burner)
- Run setup.exe (25-30 minutes install, dependent on your machine)
2. Make sure MinGW is installed on
your machine - you likely have done this already depending on
what IDE you have choosen. Instructions here.
3. In a Houdini Command Line Tools
window set your MSVCDir
environment variable in the following manner:
Open your Windows start menu and go to All
Programs / Side Effects Software / Houdini 13.0.582 / Utilities
/ Command Line Tools
In the window type in the following:
# Set MSVCDir to point to the Microsoft Visual C++ installed location. set MSVCDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC cd %HFS%\toolkit xcopy /S samples C:\samples cd C:\samples\SOP hcustom.exe SOP_Star.CNOTE: The command line tool is just a cmd window with the Houdini environment variable set, so you still are in MS-DOS - dir instead of ls
You can also test it by downloading SOP_Star.C and SOP_Star.h directly (zip here).
You can now make your own custom nodes in C++ for Houdini - go back to the previous page to see some beginner examples.
As of 3/1/2015 I have successfully tested this using Windows 7 OS.
Here is what a clean hcustom compile should look like:
If you wish to check what version of c++ you are using type c++ -v
