I'm just spinning gears here for hours on hours trying to get this thing to compile. The existing Wiki isn't any help, which is too bad 🙁

If someone who knows C++ and Visual Studio could please provide how to get this thing compiled, I would be very greatful.

What I've done so far:
1) I've upgraded the project to Visual Studio 2008.
2) Downloaded libpng, sdl, sdl_net, zlib.
3) Installed Windows SDK 6.1 (Vista I think)
4) Updated reference paths to find the SDL, SDL_NET, ZLIB, PNG include files

I kept getting linker errors when it was trying to import .lib files. Since the .lib files seemed to be missing, i generated the sdl and sdl_net lib files from the .dll files included in the .72 release. I did this by:

dumpbin /exports SDL_net.dll /out:sdl_net.def
lib /out:sdl_net.lib /def:sdl_net.def /machine:x86

I also got lib files for png and zlib, which I just downloaded the DLL's off the net and did the same calls to generate them. I also found a sdlmain.lib from the distro of sdl. Otherwise I had no idea where it was coming from, but it wanted it...

I then was getting an error that curses.lib couldn't be found. After much search I was unable to find source for this library. I found the config.h had it turned off so I wasn't sure why the linker was trying to link to it. I checked the project file's linker command line and sure enough it was included on there. I removed it.

I finally got it to link all the way through but now I get a hundreds of errors like so:

11>cdrom.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_CDClose referenced in function "public: virtual __thiscall CDROM_Interface_SDL::~CDROM_Interface_SDL(void)" (??1CDROM_Interface_SDL@@UAE@XZ)
21>cdrom.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_CDStatus referenced in function "public: virtual bool __thiscall CDROM_Interface_SDL::SetDevice(char *,int)" (?SetDevice@CDROM_Interface_SDL@@UAE_NPADH@Z)
31>cdrom_image.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_mutexV referenced in function "public: virtual bool __thiscall CDROM_Interface_Image::PlayAudioSector(unsigned long,unsigned long)" (?PlayAudioSector@CDROM_Interface_Image@@UAE_NKK@Z)
41>cdrom_image.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_mutexP referenced in function "public: virtual bool __thiscall CDROM_Interface_Image::PlayAudioSector(unsigned long,unsigned long)" (?PlayAudioSector@CDROM_Interface_Image@@UAE_NKK@Z)
51>ipx.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDLNet_UDP_Close referenced in function "void __cdecl DisconnectFromServer(bool)" (?DisconnectFromServer@@YAX_N@Z)
61>ipxserver.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _SDLNet_UDP_Close

I think this is related to me generating the .LIB files. I have no clue. I don't like C++ 😀

Please help me. This is my last hope for trying to fix my Global Conquest crash issue that has been pluaging me for years now.