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by Donny Wilbanks · in Torque Game Engine · 03/25/2004 (5:20 pm) · 5 replies

Alright, after waiting a week for my nifty Visual C++.Net Edition I ordered from amazon (comes with a nifty book also to help you out). It came today, I was happy!

I got it put into my Widows 98se, and fired it up. Well I got as far as the "you don't have the correct OS". I look at it again. Clicked quickly and got the same message! So I quickly looked at the back of the box set and found the words I dreaded:

Minium System Requirements:

Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (profesional), or Windows 2000.

I gasped and sure glad I did not spend the full price on this.

So Back to my orignal question

I am looking for a compiler & IDE for my SDK

I have tried DevCpp, Eclipse
(
let me rephrase this
* DevCpp does not like to load up the VC6 project file (just goes wiggy)
* Eclipse - I just could not get it to link into anything.
)

I have MS SYS and MinGW installed, I am looking on how to link them with a IDE (or a good Tut on how to install the above two compilers) Any tuts or examples outer?
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Torque Owner Jonathan Rose
#1
03/25/2004 (5:28 pm)
You could always get WinXP... same method :P

cd

and

make -f mk/configure.mk OS=WIN32 BUILD=DEBUG COMPILER=GCC3

make

is all you really need to know about MinGW... I suppose you could do all your C++ coding in Notepad if you got desperate :P

Torque Owner Donny Wilbanks
#2
03/25/2004 (5:39 pm)
Just trying to run with what I got. Don't have a lot of cash to spend at the moment.

I like working within the IDE's, you get to see allot (this goes here lada).

One reason I picked up the .Net version, it was a sudgested compiler, got tired of trying to make things work (dev cpp, elcipse). Though I did not think to ask (or see) that it had a specifc OS that i played on. So I am back to square one with the compilers.

So I got myself burned (untill I decide to get one of the above OS's, that will work with that compiler).

So back to searching.

Torque Owner John Vanderbeck
VanderGames
#3
03/25/2004 (6:30 pm)
Pick up a copy of Deveoper Studio 6 on eBay. You can get them dirt cheap. Its what still use, and I refuse to upgrade for my own work. Only thing I use VS7/.NET for is contracts that specifically require it. Otherwise everything else, including my own company work is done in VS6. While I am now a days running XP, I can say VS6 runs fine in Win98 as I used to use it on that back when.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#4
03/25/2004 (6:53 pm)
What was you issue with using mingw/mysys with eclipse? I have been using that setup sense Oct'03 with no issues, even released a resoure for exact step by step instructions to get it working.

I also think Rick O. is using the eclipse IDE on his spify new gento install

-Ron

Torque Owner Donny Wilbanks
#5
03/25/2004 (7:03 pm)
@ John "Pick up a copy of Deveoper Studio 6 on eBay. You can get them dirt cheap. Its what still use, and I refuse to upgrade for my own work. Only thing I use VS7/.NET for is contracts that specifically require it."

Well I will look into that, What is Developer Studie 6?

@ Ron "What was you issue with using mingw/mysys with eclipse? I have been using that setup sense Oct'03 with no issues, even released a resoure for exact step by step instructions to get it working."


Pulled this off the forum that I posted last week. This was dealing with Eclipse. I ran into a wall here.

This was the example I was using (here's the thread)
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=15205

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Newby Question.... Thanks for putting up this tutorial, I got about 90% of it done (I think correctly)

"Step 11:
Build the engine via Project -> Rebuild All"

Something happens here, but I get a quick flash on the screen (it runs by to quickly to read)>

Edit: Alright after spending a few minutes with Neopaint and PrintScreen I was able to capture the message. It reads: "Progress Information: Operation in Progress". No additional information held in windo.

> and no report down below. (Most complilers do something at this point). I am sure I have done something wrong. Nothing seams to get compiled, no executable assemebled. Then again I am not 100% for sure what I am suppose to be looking at.

I tried to rebuild the Demo Engine. I don't seam to be getting any results. I don't think the compiler is linked correctly, but I am not for sure.

Also when I tried to start a new project, the Elcipse seams happy to pull up a Java Project, Plug in Project or Simple...

What else do I need to link into the Elcipse to get it going. What about this "External Tools Builder" Option under Project > Properties.

When looking at it reads "Missing Builder:(org.eclipse.cdlt.make.core.makeBuilder)

I think something should be there...

Edit: Just a after thought, I import the Project Directory is there a Specific Project I should try to Import just for testing purposes is there anything that the SDK includes that I can compile.
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I pretty much gave up about that point and ordered the other compiler.

Oct'03 with no issues, even released a resoure for exact step by step instructions to get it working.

Got a link to that handy?