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Right, I ended up with a copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003. (Part of one of my university courses, they were giving us each a copy of it with the textbook.) So, I was stuffing around with it, and then I thought: hey, let me try and compile UnrealIRCd with this. Just for the hell of it.

So, I downloaded the 3.2.1 source, shoved it in my D: drive, loaded up the VB command prompt and decided to give it a try. No luck. It complains that it cannot find included file windows.h and then tells me, in no uncertain terms, that I should go back to Natural Selection mapping.

For those interested, here's a screenshot. Sorry Lynx users. As you can see, I highlighted the error message.


So, any idea how to get this working? (I tried commenting out the windows.h bit in unreal.c to see what would happen - I've never seen a bigger load of compile errors in my life.)

Hm... you have Visual Basic .NET or the whole Visual Studio? (The title on that console is a bit misleading .)

If you're sure it's VB.NET, then IIRC VB.NET doesn't come with the PSDK etc (why you would still have CL is beyond me, though I think the .NET Framework comes with all the compilers (VB, C#, and C++)). No PSDK == no <windows.h>. In that console do an echo %INCLUDE% and check each of the folders outputted to see if there's a windows.h. If there is, there might be something wrong with CL. If not, then you need to adjust the include path to include the PSDK if you installed it.

Although I'll only be able to try this when I get home, it sounds like I'll need to get that PSDK. Do you mind providing me with a link?

In the Unreal3.2.1 source package there is a file in the doc folder called compiling_win32.txt that says:

== VC++ 6.0 ==
2. You need the Platform SDK (PSDK)
Grab it at: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/pla ... sdkupdate/ ->
core sdk -> install this sdk.
Note that this can take some time to download because it's >200Mb
(450mb installed) [!].

Also see http://www.vulnscan.org/unrealwin32dev/, it might be helpful.

If you have xp sp2 on your machine be aware it mucks that page up pretty good . The "new" security measures stop the activex control downloading so you enable it and it downloads then breaks with an "Undefined version error" . took about 5 goes to get it in . Then the new popup stopper kicks in and stops the snazzy popup installer working . Click allow and then you get back to making activex control install again lol . Sheez its nearly enough to make me swap to *nix . Which if I get my hands on another old pc I may well do to have a play.

AngryWolf: I overwrote the old compiling.win32.txt file with the one in CVS, which doesn't have that link

Solutech: Typical Microsoft. My home computer is stand-alone (and, incidentally, still running SP1) and these university computers still run Windows 2000, so if I just get the full install (the one that comes in 25MB pieces), that should hopefully do it.