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Dark GDK / Visual C++ Express Edition Beta 2

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ArcAngel
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Posted: 10th May 2005 07:16
Can I use Visual C++ Express Edition Beta 2 with Dark SDK?

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Posted: 10th May 2005 07:40
Is that VS .Net 2005 (aka VS .Net 8) ?

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Posted: 10th May 2005 08:09
Beta 2 has alot of incompatibilities, I wouldn't recommend it for development means.

Beta 1 can be used, but it requires you to manually set the Platform SDK (which must be downloaded seperately).

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Posted: 10th May 2005 08:58 Edited at: 10th May 2005 08:59
Tesio can you elaborate? What does "manually setting the platform SDK" involve and how do I do that? I take it I can get the program itself from Microsoft.com.

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And yes I am talking about that.

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Posted: 10th May 2005 09:05
It involves downloading the SDK, which contains Windows headers & libs, independently from VC++, installing it, and manually adding its "include" and "lib" folders to the search path of VC++.

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ArcAngel
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Posted: 10th May 2005 09:08
Is it worth it? Is it easy? Where is this SDK and is there a tutorial I can follow to make sure I don't screw it up lol.

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Posted: 10th May 2005 10:12
Not just manually adding the includes/lib directories.. god if it were only that straight-forward.

You have to also manually add each of the libraries in the reference.

You'll need at the very least,

Kernel32.lib User32.lib CRTmdt.lib, and a few more I forget.
Your best bet is to find someone who has Visual Studio 2003 installed, and ask them to look at the reference libraries for your. So you know which base-system libraries you need to add.

Once that's all done though, it is fairly easy to get it all working.

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Posted: 11th May 2005 17:40
Yes, sorry, forgot about that. You have to manually add all the .lib files in the linker options. When I compile something on VC++ 2005, I do the following: I compile the project and then, when it gives me a linker error, search for that function @ MSDN. There I can see to which .lib file that function belongs. I add it to the library dependencies, and recompile You usually have to do it 4 or 5 times only.

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