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Compilation without VC++

by Josiah Wang · in Torque Game Engine · 10/25/2003 (10:24 am) · 12 replies

Ok, I'm a newbie at this. I've had torque for a month, and I compiled with the Visual C++ 6.0 Intro Version. It went fine, only for the fact that the annoying microsoft notice that I was using only the intro version popped up every 10 seconds.

My question: does anyone know of a free compiler I can use with torque, and a quick-start tutorial for it?

MANY MANY THANKS!
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Torque Owner Benoit Touchette
#1
10/25/2003 (1:07 pm)
www.mingw.org (gcc compiler)
www.bloodshed.net (devc++ ide, somewhat like VC++ ide).

Torque Owner Jarrod Roberson
#2
10/25/2003 (1:54 pm)
Except the Bloodshed DevC++ won't load in Torque it does nothing but crash trying to import the project.

Torque Owner Benoit Touchette
#3
10/25/2003 (3:02 pm)
You can create a new project to get around that issue, or get another ide. There are other's out there. For example :

www.objectcentral.com/vide.htm
www.parinya.ca/
visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/
www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rainer/

or if you like the old turbo c++ interface :

www.rhide.com/

and for the diehard minimalists :

www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
www.vim.org/

Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#4
10/26/2003 (5:55 pm)
Quote Benoit "Dr41no" Touchette:

You can create a new project to get around that issue

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what do you mean by that? (sorry, i'm a really new noob)

Torque Owner Benoit Touchette
#5
10/27/2003 (7:02 am)
Start an empty project and import the various files needed and tell it to use the make files that are already there.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#6
10/27/2003 (7:17 am)
I will be releasing instructions on how to use Eclipse and minGW to compile TGE. I have sent the prelim instructions to GG for review before I post

-Ron

Torque Owner Benoit Touchette
#7
10/27/2003 (10:02 am)
Ron you can mail them to me if you want so i can test them under linux.

Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#8
10/27/2003 (1:00 pm)
Thanks guys! really helpful...i like this community!

Ron Yacketta, mind posting a link to it here after you post it? thanks

Torque Owner Tigeba
#9
10/29/2003 (4:48 pm)
Ron,

Thanks for working on the eclipse+minGW challenge. I use eclipse every day for Java development so let me know if you need a beta tester or some user feedback on the instructions!

Torque Owner Benoit Touchette
#10
10/30/2003 (8:17 am)
Here is an interesting article for eclipse users from ibm developerworks site

www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecc/

addendum:

www.programming-x.com/programming-x/eclipse.html
eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugins.jsp

Associate Ron Yacketta
#11
10/30/2003 (10:12 am)
The only issue I take with eclipse is how the import "copies" files from their current location to the workbench location. For TGE this is a HUGE waste of HDD space and time, I have a work around that does not require you to follow that methodology.

More to come in the near future...

-Ron

Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#12
11/08/2003 (4:29 pm)
So....any new updates?