It wont work!

#1 Oh yah and I have XP and meet all the system requirments.

#2 Maybe you should have a look at the getting started documentation
www.garagegames.com/docs/torque/general/pt01.php

There is also information about how to setup your compiler and everything. Maybe that helps.

#3 I think that I may have found the problem. I dont know if i have SP+1.
I could still use some help though.
Oh yeah has anybody ever ran into problems useing torque with the VC Toolkit 2003?

#4 Well have they? Please I cant let this thread dye until it works.

#5 I've never used VC toolkit 2003; in theory it should work fine if you can get a build environment working, since Torque does compile on the same compiler in the IDE.

#6 Eric,

There seems to be a problem with Unix CR/LFs when downloading from the CVS. One of the simptoms is the project not opening in the compiler. Check the FAQ and the CVS download docs to see if you downloaded everything correctly.

#7 Eric,

As far as I know, no one has *ever* compiled TGE with the VC++ 2003 Toolkit...


...until I did on Firday night. I will post complete directions for how to do this tomorrow night (Tuesday night). I will warn you though that it takes a bit of effort.

You may want to take a look at this in the meantime:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=5957

#8 Thank you all so much!
DO
PRINT "Thank you!"
LOOP

(thats a QBASIC infinite loop)

#9 Oh wait i dont know if this is a problem or not but if you read my post at the top you will see that i have tried to open with several things. So my question to you folks is this: is there anyway to wipe these previous attemps from my computer memory? If not then will your (matthew's) procedure still work.
also redownloading torque does not get rid of these attemps.
thanx again for all the help.

#10 Hey Matthew could you post those directions on this thread as well plz or else telll mme what ur thread was called.

#11 Sorry Eric...this got moved to the back burner and I haven't had a chance to post yet. I'll see if I can do so tonight or tomorrow night (got some other stuff to finish first).

#12 Alright thanx Matthew. Hey I got a question for you. Do you have the book called Video Game programming all in one or something like that. its upposed to be like a torque manual and I was thinking of getting it if this works.
Oh yeah one more question. once you compil torque with the 2003 tool kit do you use some kind of thing that comes with torque to program stuff with it or do have to use the toolkit's command line. Which is crappy compared to other visual studio products.

#13 Alright thanx Matthew. Hey I got a question for you. Do you have the book called Video Game programming all in one or something like that. its upposed to be like a torque manual and I was thinking of getting it if this works.
Oh yeah one more question. once you compil torque with the 2003 tool kit do you use some kind of thing that comes with torque to program stuff with it or do have to use the toolkit's command line. Which is crappy compared to other visual studio products.

#14 I dont know why that was submitted twice but oh well.......

#15 Eric,

Check out the link I posted above ;)

#16 Yeah, I did before. Do you recomend that I use that instead I mean I havent done it yet but I was waiting for your directions, but I guess I'll give that a try.

#17 Alright this is gonna take a while cause I'll have to do it at someone elses house. This is because I only have 56K and a required download would about 30 hours. Wait a second hey Matthew when I go to download the express beta do I have to also download the two other things that it shows when you click on the Important Information When downloading... If I dont have to have these thing It will save a lot of time so please tell me.

#18 If you just download the things I linked in my instructions you will be fine. Keep in mind that the VS Express Beta and the Platform SDK are web installs so you are going to have to have your computer at this friend's house.

I would also point out that even if you go with the VC++ Toolkit only you are going to have to get the Platform SDK so it really isn't going to change things as far as downloading goes.

The reason I recommended the VS Express Beta is b/c it will give you a nice graphical IDE for editing the source files. With the Toolkit you are going to be editing the source files in a text editor like Notepad or with a free IDE like Eclipse (another large download).

If you poke around a little bit you can find directions for other free C++ compilers that will have *much* smaller downloads.

Ultimately, I would recommend you pick up a cheap copy of Visual Studio .NET

#19 Here is a copy of VS.NET for $81

#20 Hmmmmm, mabye I should get that instead. On your post above you say that you would recommend that ultimatly and I assume that that means it is better right? Oh yeah does the VS Express beta have an optimizing compiler? I guess that I'll try the beta before the real thing.
thanx