Development tool used ?

[TBone]

Hi,

Just to know what you use as dev tool if you are under Windows...
because I try to use Dev-c++ but I've a lack of knowledge in this area (I write Java, C is far for now )

TBone.

[School]

I think the default one to develop OpenTTD is actually costs you money -- Microsoft Visual C++ 6, 7(.NET 2002) or 7.1(.NET 2003).
None of the tools above are free, but if you can compile it using a command line or with a makefile, you can download the vc++ compiler for free at http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/. Then set the $CPP in makefile to cl.exe and add the path of vctoolkit2003 to you %PATH% variable. Run the makefile with any make.exe you can find(http://digitalmars.com), that's all.

[TBone]

thanks, I will try.

[School]

Just seeing that .net Framework SDK & VC++ toolkit have nmake.exe to read makefile.

[MYOB]

You can build with MinGW and Jam on Windows too - all free.

Or just use one of the free platforms OTTD runs on - Linux, FreeBSD or BeOS

[School]

You can build with MinGW and Jam on Windows too - all free.

Or just use one of the free platforms OTTD runs on - Linux, FreeBSD or BeOS

It's clear that the best complier in Windows should be the one from microsoft and it's free( note: it is free in cost only ). MinGW is a bit slow for me

[CobraA1]

I have troubles compiling it with any free compilers .

[School]

I have troubles compiling it with any free compilers .

If finally you fail to compile it, use the binary from offical website and wait for the next release.

[CobraA1]

Yes, but I want to be a developer .

Ah well, summer is coming up, I'll have a lot more time to solve my problems then.

[jub]

There is no problem with mingw+msys. Just get latest svn version and type make

[School]

There is no problem with mingw+msys. Just get latest svn version and type make

It's strange that the compiler can't locate rev.c in the newest revision.

[jub]

There is no problem with mingw+msys. Just get latest svn version and type make

It's strange that the compiler can't locate rev.c in the newest revision.

Do you have rev.c?
rev.c should look like this:
const char _openttd_revision[] = "r590";

[CobraA1]

I get:

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sdl.c:8:17: SDL.h: No such file or directory
sdl.c:9:24: SDL_thread.h: No such file or directory

and a bunch of other errors . . .

[Korenn]

well...
did you ever install SDL?

[jub]

I get:

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sdl.c:8:17: SDL.h: No such file or directory
sdl.c:9:24: SDL_thread.h: No such file or directory

and a bunch of other errors . . .

compile without SDL or
download this package:

http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel ... w32.tar.gz

and change sdl-config (name and prefix to your mingw directory)

[CobraA1]

YES

SDL worked fine before

edit: Got SDL working - that's wierd, had to reinstall SDL - as if it somehow uninstalled itself????

Wow, actually compiles now! Somebody's actually maintaining the mingw make now!

[jub]

YES

SDL worked fine before

Does sdl-config --cflags work?

[Darkvater]

On Windows you don't need SDL

It just uses the windows gdi, which is a lot faster too.

[CobraA1]

Wow, somebody's maintaining the MinGW build now Had to re-install SDL (some odd reason it got uninstalled??), but works now!

Glad to see the strgen issues are resolved . MinGW had troubles because it confused / and \ all the time, due to being a unix tool that ran on windows .

[TBone]

Hi,

I've installed mingw & msys and it works fine but...

Is there something broken today into the saveload.c ?
because I have 'z', 'p' undeclared, few parsing errors, ...

I will try tomorrow