Visual Studio for free?

Saga Musix · May 30, 2007, 14:16:41

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:

LPChip · May 30, 2007, 17:28:01

The Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition doesn't work with the OpenMPT sourcecode.

Saga Musix · May 30, 2007, 18:29:28

oh, so i *would* have to *buy* it?! :shock:

LPChip · May 30, 2007, 19:50:43

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

Relabsoluness · May 30, 2007, 20:10:39

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.

Saga Musix · May 30, 2007, 20:14:19

indeed, VS98 = VS6.0, and that's the only one i have...

bvanoudtshoorn · June 03, 2007, 10:16:20

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.

Saga Musix · June 03, 2007, 12:58:40

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...

roncli · June 06, 2007, 18:45:33

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/

Relabsoluness · June 06, 2007, 20:27:33

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.