Compiler Needed! Thread

Hello, I have a mod source code complete that needs to be compiled for use in game, please i am desperate for help.
if anyone can help please email me at vlightinc@cybertown.com

thans

Have a look on the MSDN, there is a free version of Visual C++ on there that is command line.

or devcpp from bloodshed software, it's free and GUI

assuming it's in c++ of course...

ImTheDarkcyde wrote: or devcpp from bloodshed software, it's free and GUI

with one problem though: you can't just link to libs like that... you need to trans-compile (or trans-hack) them over to dev-cpp which can be a pain.

ShortCutMan wrote: Have a look on the MSDN, there is a free version of Visual C++ on there that is command line.

which is one of the things i always googled for and never found... where's this miraculous vc++ compiler for free?

Microsoft.com
I think that may be what you are looking for.

I have that bur have no idea how to use it, i also have no idea which files go in the server.dll or the client.dll

HL2 sdk REQUIRES Visual Studio C++ .Net

Edited by (in order): Chunky, Chunky

hm... wait a moment... you link against delivered .dlls right? with dev-cpp and some tricks you can use arbitrary dll files and compile against them... for sure not a piece of cake to do but it should work.

I have the microsft visual studio beta 2 but when i try to compile the game_sdk i get all this....
------ Build started: Project: client_sdk, Configuration: Release HL2MP Win32 ------
Compiling...
stdafx.cpp
c:\andmod\src\Public\tier0/dbg.h(482) : warning C4996: '_vsnprintf' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\stdio.h(314) : see declaration of '_vsnprintf'
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(89) : warning C4996: 'strcpy' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(56) : see declaration of 'strcpy'
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(90) : error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'const char *' to 'char *'
Conversion loses qualifiers
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(93) : error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'const char *' to 'char *'
Conversion loses qualifiers
c:\andmod\src\Public\datamap.h(384) : warning C4996: 'strcpy' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(56) : see declaration of 'strcpy'
c:\andmod\src\Public\datamap.h(385) : warning C4996: 'strcat' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(59) : see declaration of 'strcat'
Creating browse information file...
Microsoft Browse Information Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50215
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file '.\Release HL2MP\AlphaMaterialProxy.sbr': No such file or directory
Build log was saved at "file://c:\andmod\src\cl_dll\Release HL2MP\BuildLog.htm"
client_sdk - 3 error(s), 4 warning(s)
------ Build started: Project: hl, Configuration: Release HL2MP Win32 ------
Compiling...
stdafx.cpp
c:\andmod\src\Public\tier0/dbg.h(482) : warning C4996: '_vsnprintf' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\stdio.h(314) : see declaration of '_vsnprintf'
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(89) : warning C4996: 'strcpy' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(56) : see declaration of 'strcpy'
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(90) : error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'const char *' to 'char *'
Conversion loses qualifiers
c:\andmod\src\Public\vstdlib/strtools.h(93) : error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'const char *' to 'char *'
Conversion loses qualifiers
c:\andmod\src\Public\datamap.h(384) : warning C4996: 'strcpy' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(56) : see declaration of 'strcpy'
c:\andmod\src\Public\datamap.h(385) : warning C4996: 'strcat' was declared deprecated
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(59) : see declaration of 'strcat'
Creating browse information file...
Microsoft Browse Information Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50215
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
BSCMAKE: error BK1506 : cannot open file '.\release_hl2mp\AI_Activity.sbr': No such file or directory
Build log was saved at "file://c:\andmod\src\dlls\Release HL2MP\BuildLog.htm"
hl - 3 error(s), 4 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 2 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

any way to fix it so it'll compile?