hey ppl,
i know that there was this offer of a late visual studio version to download for free. i don't have any details about it, but maybe you (Mpt developers) have - i decided to have a look at C++ myself, coz i wanted to get in touch with the mpt sourcecode, too. so what do i need? I bet my Visual Studio 98 is a bit too old, isn't it? :oops:
The Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition doesn't work with the OpenMPT sourcecode.
oh, so i *would* have to *buy* it?! :shock:
Quote from: "Jojo"oh, so i *would* have to *buy* it?! :shock:
Visual Studio Express Edition is the free version.
But its basically a way to build .net framwork applications, and it is missing some libraries or so I heard. Anyway, some people tried to compile the code and posted here that it didn't worked for them.
I believe Rewbs and the other programmers are using Visual Studio 2003
Quote from: "Jojo"hey ppl,
i know that there was this offer of a late visual studio version to download for free. i don't have any details about it, but maybe you (Mpt developers) have
While visiting Visual C++ website(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/), I've seen banner saying: "Get visual studio 2005 standard edition free", but I don't know what's the catch.
Quote from: "Jojo"i wanted to get in touch with the mpt sourcecode, too. so what do i need? I bet my Visual Studio 98 is a bit too old, isn't it? :oops:
I think the code of v. 1.16 might be compilable with VS98 (== VS6.0 ?), but current code is not(or maybe after some extensive modifications it might be). Current code can be compiled with VS2003 and VS2005.
Quote from: "LPChip"Visual Studio Express Edition is the free version.
But its basically a way to build .net framwork applications, and it is missing some libraries or so I heard.
It works fine for plain C++ as well.
indeed, VS98 = VS6.0, and that's the only one i have...
Hm... You could always try signing up for a computer science degree at university. That way, MS gives you all their software for free. That's how I get all my MS stuff legally and freely. It means that I don't have to give money to the evil empire but can still be above board. =)
Even if you've only got VS6, you should still be able to use it to explore the code - you just won't be able to compile anything. I dunno if that's any use to you or not, though.
Quote from: "bvanoudtshoorn"Hm... You could always try signing up for a computer science degree at university. That way, MS gives you all their software for free. That's how I get all my MS stuff legally and freely. It means that I don't have to give money to the evil empire but can still be above board. =)
That's how i got my copy of VB6 :lol: But since my brother doesn't study anymore, I'm not able to go for this offer anymore... and i'm still at school...
Has anyone tried to compile on VS2005 C++ Express with the Platform SDK? A while back when I was using this, I had to download that to get any Windows C++ apps to compile. I wouldn't think OpenMPT would be any different.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
Quote from: "roncli"Has anyone tried to compile on VS2005 C++ Express with the Platform SDK? A while back when I was using this, I had to download that to get any Windows C++ apps to compile. I wouldn't think OpenMPT would be any different.
Yes, someone has tried; lack of needed MFC files made the try unsuccesfull.