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Dark GDK / Compiling DGDK for VS2010

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Dar13
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Posted: 29th Jul 2010 23:36 Edited at: 30th Jul 2010 04:20
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I've been trying to compile DarkGDK so I can use it with VS2010 Professional. I've got all but two projects of the solution to compile without errors, but of the two left(Display and Multiplayer) one of them requires a deprecated feature of the DX SDK(DirectPlay). In the latest SDK(June 2010) they've removed DirectPlay from the SDK completely, thus I am unable to completely compile Dark GDK.

I've read that the easiest way to fix this problem is to use an older SDK, but I'm hesitant to do that. Am I going to be stuck with using an older DXSDK to compile/use DarkGDK? Or completely replace all the directplay code?

PS: Has anyone else managed to compile DarkGDK for VS2010 or for the latest SDK release?

EDIT: Got the Display library to compile.


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Mireben
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Posted: 31st Jul 2010 11:12 Edited at: 31st Jul 2010 11:18
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Here is a thread about how to make a dummy multiplayer library, to make newer DirectX versions work with Dark GDK.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=139830&b=22

EDIT: another thread about the same topic.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=149737&b=22
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Dar13
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Posted: 31st Jul 2010 21:39 Edited at: 31st Jul 2010 22:23
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Thanks, Mireben. I was just about to give up entirely.

EDIT:I give up. Seems they also deprecated and removed DirectDraw from the DirectX SDK. It's just too much work to do to get DGDK to work at all, much less properly. I guess I'm using Irrlicht for C++ unless TGC decides to update to this DirectX SDK(What are the chances of that happening?).


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Hassan
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Posted: 31st Jul 2010 23:09
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wish DGDK had a little bit of support, currently, this board is totally forgotten by mods/creators, maybe just BigAdd, as he's responsible for moderating, a mod posts in this board once a month, or twice a year, something like this

they really should pick this project once again and update it to work with VS2010 and the new directX SDK (feb 2010)

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Dar13
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Posted: 1st Aug 2010 15:25
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Same here, I was meaning to port one of my DBPro projects over with minimal fuss(as I just want the ability to pass classes into/out of functions). It's not so much VS2010(just a lot of reconfiguring) it's the DirectX SDK that's such a pain in the neck.

If DarkGDK was supported up to the February 2010 DXSDK, I'd use it but since it isn't, I'm going to use Irrlicht.


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Wilvis
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Posted: 21st Aug 2010 22:49 Edited at: 21st Aug 2010 22:53
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I have complied GDK with vs2010 and DirectX June 2010.

I had to remove the networking stuff, and had to remove the VR920 support thats why the display would not complie, I couldn't get the VR SDK to complie right under vs2010.

@Dar13 If you undefine the vr920 stuff you should be able to get the display to complie. The netowkring is another story, i went though and commented out all the code and left the function calls that do nothing. was going to replace them with a 3rd party multi player but haven't started that yet.

I think there is more but i am not at home to check all the changes i made, Will update this when i get home.
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bjadams
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 18:23
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they had announced that now dbpro and dgdk share the same codebase.

i thought that meant, every time a new dbpro version came out, they just had to press compile, and they would have an equivalent dgdk version.

seems i was very wrong
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Wilvis
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Posted: 30th Aug 2010 05:55
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Here is the changes i have made to get it to compile in vs2010, I used the June 2010 Direct X.

Some of it is not complete and i have not tested it with all the commands.
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Wilvis
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Posted: 30th Aug 2010 06:43
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Sorry for the delay, had a busy week.

Here is the changes i have made to get it to compile in vs2010, I used the June 2010 Direct X.

Some of it is not complete and i have not tested it with all the commands.

So it will not upload within the forums even know it is only 25mb

Here is a you send it link Only problem is it expires

https://www.yousendit.com/download/aHlUUWVpeFU3bUEwTVE9PQ
File expiration date: September 5, 2010
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