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C++ help required

by John McKinney · in Technical Issues · 03/15/2007 (1:45 am) · 2 replies

Hi all,

While I was waiting for Edwards Maurinas book, (nearly eight weeks now from amazon.co.uk) I thought I would look at some c++programming and I have hit a wall quite quickly.

I have found that c++ open source programs (bloodshed and visual studio express) cannot compile AI source files from a gaming book I am reading - apparently Visual Studio Standard 2005 is required - due to MFCs ?.

If I am going to program AI etc. in c++ do I need (along with requisite texts) to purchase Visual Studio Standard 2005.

Many thanks in advance John.
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Associate David Higgins
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#1
03/15/2007 (11:10 am)
@John, if your resources required MFC, then you probably would want to look for alternative resources which are a bit more standard -- MFC is standard, but it's a Windows Standard.

Dev-C++ (Bloodshed) can compile most things, especially cross-platform friendly code ... as well as some Windows specific code ...

It's all really just a matter of what your doing, why your doing it, and whether your doing it right ...

If you intend to extend any of the Torque products, it would probably be beneficial to you to purchase Visual Studio if your main development platform is Windows.

Torque Owner Dan -
#2
03/15/2007 (6:13 pm)
Did you download the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Full Download

I have found it needed to get some libs not included with Visual Studio Express.

Good luck

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