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jazz:
Ok.  Weird.  I now have BOTH Visual C++ 2005 Express AND the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 working with both the Platform SDK and the DirectX SDK.  Only with a minimal test app though as my main project will not compile.  For some reason the standard C++ string classes and templates seem to operate differently from the ones that comes with MinGW.

Thanks guys.

Vampyre_Dark:

--- Quote from: jazz on June 07, 2007, 01:08:14 am ---I thought I had tried getting C::B to work with Visual C++ 2005 Express and it didn't work
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You have to choose the proper compiler in the project options first... (C::B will actually choose GCC as your default compiler, even if only VSC++ or another compiler is found.  :roll: ) Then you have to add your folders into your global compiler and debugger setup for the platform SDK and DX DSK. You need the libs folder, and the includes folder. If you do that properly, there is nothing that can go wrong, or not work.

Go into COMPILER AND DEBUGGER under the SETTINGS options.
Then click on SEARCH DIRECTORIES

Under the compiler tab, you want the folders with the includes.. Here are my settings, but the actual folder names depends on which version of the SDKs you've got.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2007)\Include

Then you have to go to the linker tab, and point to your lib directories. Once again, your actual folders might be different. You might be using the 64 bit DX SDK.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2007)\Lib\x86

And then, you have to add the proper libraries as needed to your projects in their own compiler settings. If you got DX to work, you obviously know how to do this.

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