Trying to compile openttd using visual studio 2015, getting over 600 errors

[UntouchedWagons]

I have spent the last 5 hours trying to get openttd to compile. I've tried cygwin, cygwin64, mingw and mingw64. None of them worked, compilation failed on all of them because "SOCKET was not declared in this scope". So I tried visual studio 2015 using this guide. Among other errors I got error C4430 which the tutorial provides a fix for, but it doesn't work: http://i.imgur.com/Y1mpYup.png How in the world do I get this to work?

[xarick]

2.3 Select the file (WorkFolder)\trunk\projects\openttd_vs140.sln.

Shouldn't it be openttd_vs140.vcxproj?

[burty]

2.3 Select the file (WorkFolder)\trunk\projects\openttd_vs140.sln.

Shouldn't it be openttd_vs140.vcxproj?

No, you need to use the solution file to make sure all the other stuff compiles as well, e.g lang etc
Only thing I can think is you are missing some files from the various includes...
I got it up and running quickly with VS2015 community...
The other thing is to ensure the includes and libraries are the same bitness you are compiling against


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[UntouchedWagons]

I've tried to make release builds in win32 mode and x64 (after adjusting the library directories accordingly), neither compile successfully.

[UntouchedWagons]

Okay so I moved the entire OpenTTD Dev folder into my Documents folder, reset the include/library paths and it worked first try. What the actual hell.

Now I just need to figure out where visual studio put the game.

[Edit] And now it's not compiling.