[ares]

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping you guys can help me. I'm trying to use visual studio 2005 with the CVS HEAD version without much success. While I can see the code, building doesn't work so well.

I tried two ways so far:

I used the project file (solution) in projects/MSVC_2005, which had a lot of missing library paths (like directx, openal, oggvorbis, etc). Also, some projects were missing, I think, like the openal and lua ones. So that didn't work.

Then, I tried to convert the projects/MSVC_7 solution, which worked a bit better. However, that one seems to miss directx and openal as well. I tried to add the extra include paths, but it still doesn't work.

Is there any setup which I can use directly? I'm getting a bit frustrated... I'm coming from the gcc world, so I'm a bit of a beginner using visual studio...

If you guys can give me some hints, that would be great!

Thanks!
max

[Goober5000]

The only MSVC project workspace that is reliably maintained is the MSVC 6 one.  You could try importing that.

[ares]

Thanks. That helped. Still had to modify it a little, and I'm getting weird errors like

BSCMAKE: warning BK4502 : truncated .SBR file 'Debug\Profile\jcapimin.sbr' not in Debug\Profile\code.bsc
BSCMAKE: error BK1513 : nonincremental update requires all .SBR files

which makes the build fail. Then, if I click "Link only", it works.  Also, if I right-click on the source file (e.g. jcapimin.cpp) and click compile, then building will complain about another .sbr file. I played this game for a while, and it didn't seem to stop.

The same happens when I compile Freespace2.

Any ideas?

[Goober5000]

Yeah, that's a very annoying problem which strikes me every so often.  Just disable "create browse info" in each project, then do a full clean and rebuild.