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Compile with VS 2008 Express?

by Rodney (OldRod) Burns · in Torque Game Engine · 03/07/2008 (2:17 pm) · 4 replies

I lost my copy of VS 2005 C++ Express in a computer upgrade (forgot to copy it over - doh!).

I've noticed that Microsoft has released VS 2008 C++ Express Edition for free now... will TGE 1.5.2 compile with the 2008 version? Has anyone tried it?
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Torque 3D Owner Eric Clausing
#1
03/07/2008 (4:03 pm)
It works fine. VS 2008 will convert the project and solutions and it works fine.

Torque Owner Cinder Games
#2
03/07/2008 (5:27 pm)
Had zero issues with 2005 or 2008.

Torque Owner Tyler Starke
#3
03/07/2008 (8:39 pm)
I spent several hours figuring this one out. I copied and pasted this from my Blog.

Here is my step by step guide to building the SDK with Visual C++ 2008.

#1. Open the VS2005 Solution with Visual C++ 2008
#2. Change the Working Directory of Torque Demo to '../example' for the Release and Debugging options.
#3. Clean the Solution
#4. Debug the Solution
#5. Build the Solution


That should work 100%. At first I followed step 4 before step 3 and I created a few errors. The last time I followed the step by step procedure that is pasted and it worked just fine.

Torque 3D Owner Rodney (OldRod) Burns
#4
03/08/2008 (3:48 pm)
Ok, it worked.

Skipped step 4, as I'm not sure what you mean there, but it cleaned, compiled and linked with no problems :)