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Projects & Development => Outpost 2 Programming & Development => Topic started by: Brazilian Fan on February 22, 2007, 03:00:11 PM

Title: Compiler Setup
Post by: Brazilian Fan on February 22, 2007, 03:00:11 PM

I was wondering...

Using the Compiler Setup (http://wiki.outpostuniverse.net/Compiler_Setup), Could I use Code::Blocks and MVC++ 2003 to compile 'typical' C++ programs?

Title: Compiler Setup
Post by: BlackBox on February 22, 2007, 03:56:27 PM

Yes, you should be able to.

The contents of the platform SDK headers RAR file should be good for compiling most windows applications, as well as programs that depend only on the standard C/C++ libraries.

If the windows applications use MFC or ATL you might be out of luck (the free version does not have headers or libraries for MFC or ATL as far as I know). If you need DirectX support it might be necessary to download additional libraries or headers from Microsoft (they are all freely available, I think, from MS'es web site).

Bottom line is: As long as you set up the compiler, IDE, and all headers / libs properly, you should be able to compile most programs that depend on the Windows API on its own.

Title: Compiler Setup
Post by: Brazilian Fan on February 23, 2007, 07:40:58 AM

Thanks   :D  

Title: Compiler Setup
Post by: Brazilian Fan on February 26, 2007, 04:53:41 PM

When I try to compile anything not related to OP2 dll coding, I get this error: "Can't find compiler executable in your search path for GNU GCC compiler". Then I searched for the application "mingw32-g++.exe" (the builder, I think) that should be inside the MV C++ 2003 Toolkit '/bin' folder and I cannot find it. Is this file included in the 'compressed' toolkit available to download from the compiler setup? If no, where can I find it?

Title: Compiler Setup
Post by: Brazilian Fan on February 27, 2007, 02:25:17 PM

Found the missing file here (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~instcd/inst-cd/windows/c-compiler/MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe)