first of all anything I release is extremly something that is a work in progress.
on a seperate note Phreak sorry for doubting you about the 2d.h thing. i didn't realize that they share files. secondly I got this error when it was linking.
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "code.lib"
Error executing link.exe.
fred2_open_r.exe - 1 error(s), 207 warning(s)
the code for fs2_open is in the directory
C:\fs2_open\
and the fred2_open is in the directory
C:\fred2_open\
nothing in the code has been changed except a few odds and ends in the project setting more or less the output directory.