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How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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Originally posted by Barrage
How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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There's no easy way to convert the makefiles that I'm aware of. Even if there was, some of the libraries may have differences that'll prevent it from compiling properly without some modifications.

However, I fully intend to get it to compile on other compilers, and, if possible, other platforms (Linux). The first logical step would be to write makefiles that GNU make can read (which is free and has both Windows & Linux versions), so once the project gets started that's probably the first thing I'm doing, unless I see some horrible bug or awesome feature I just MUST have right now.

So, in conclusion, unless you want to figure out how to do it yourself, you'll have to wait until I or someone else does.

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Originally posted by Barrage
How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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There's no easy way to convert the makefiles that I'm aware of. Even if there was, some of the libraries may have differences that'll prevent it from compiling properly without some modifications.

However, I fully intend to get it to compile on other compilers, and, if possible, other platforms (Linux). The first logical step would be to write makefiles that GNU make can read (which is free and has both Windows & Linux versions), so once the project gets started that's probably the first thing I'm doing, unless I see some horrible bug or awesome feature I just MUST have right now.

So, in conclusion, unless you want to figure out how to do it yourself, you'll have to wait until I or someone else does.

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Originally posted by Barrage
How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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There aren't actually makefiles. There are files that could be converted to makefiles if you had VC++ 6.0, but if you did you wouldn't need to. In any event, Borland products wouldn't be able to compile most stuff unless you had one that came with the MFC libraries. (Which means not a Standard edition.) The free compiler, as far as I know, is Borland C++ 5.02 (or maybe 5.5) not Borland C++ Builder. (There's a difference between the two.) And it doesn't come with an IDE. You should be able to compile CryptString with any compiler though. Not that it does much. I've compiled it with Borland C++ 4.0 and GCC under Cygwin. Not sure about anything else. The big MFC projects are FS2, FRED2, POFView, and maybe other stuff.

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Originally posted by Barrage
How do I go about compiling it? I dont have the money to go out and buy MSVC++, so will Borland's freeware C++ Builder do the job? If so, is there an easy way to convert the makefiles?

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There aren't actually makefiles. There are files that could be converted to makefiles if you had VC++ 6.0, but if you did you wouldn't need to. In any event, Borland products wouldn't be able to compile most stuff unless you had one that came with the MFC libraries. (Which means not a Standard edition.) The free compiler, as far as I know, is Borland C++ 5.02 (or maybe 5.5) not Borland C++ Builder. (There's a difference between the two.) And it doesn't come with an IDE. You should be able to compile CryptString with any compiler though. Not that it does much. I've compiled it with Borland C++ 4.0 and GCC under Cygwin. Not sure about anything else. The big MFC projects are FS2, FRED2, POFView, and maybe other stuff.

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