I am new to programming and i am tring to compile the source code with dev-cpp 4.9.9.2 and i keep getting all kinds of link errors, what am i doing wrong?, is it dev-cpp or am i not doing something right?
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link errors means that you don't have the support libs at the right place or something like that.
Dosbox uses configure and makefiles to configure and compile
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I don't have access to Linux,and I have included the include files for dosbox in my devcpp enviroment, and all the makefiles have either the .am or .in extension. Do I need Cmake? 😒
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no Cmake.
dunno on how to compile it in devcpp. Can't devcpp import the visual C project file or something like that ?
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I would ask in a Dev-CPP forum or mailing list, you probably need to set up additional stuff for compiling Dosbox with it. BUT as Qbix said you also need the libs Dosbox depends upon: SDL, SDL_sound, libpng, SDL_net... (and those might need additional stuff)
OR try installing Mingw+Msys to get a similar environment for compiling as Linux has and compile with that.
Also make sure you really NEED to compile Dosbox on your own...
yes, but every time i do i have to get into the headers and change a few things so then it can find the other headers tha it needs,devcpp might be broken in this so i will go ask on the devcpp forum 😢
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I am new to programming
Why not start off with some simple C/C++ example stuff?
Guess he wants to make DOSBox faster 😁
1+1=10
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i have dont examples and I am bored with them, i even tried to compile and old version of GEST (0.49 i think) and i still get some of the same errors with it as I do with dosbox
Iwanted the source code so i could look through it to help in learning to program
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Well this might be the problem, --dev-cpp uses the VC++ 6 runtime libraries. 😵
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wrote:I am new to programming and i am tring to compile the source code with dev-cpp 4.9.9.2 and i keep getting all kinds of link errors, what am i doing wrong?, is it dev-cpp or am i not doing something right?
Dosbox needs:
zlib ( http://www.zlib.net/ )
libpng ( http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html )
sdl ( http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php )
sdl_net ( http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/ )
pdcurses ( http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ )
And that's just to compile dosbox with Visual Studio.
wrote:i have dont examples and I am bored with them, i even tried to compile and old version of GEST (0.49 i think) and i still get some of the same errors with it as I do with dosbox
Iwanted the source code so i could look through it to help in learning to program
Dosbox, and indeed most large applications are not where you want to start if you're learning C/C++. If you can't setup the build environment, then you should start by learning how to do that, or selecting a different build environment (Dosbox can be compiled with Visual Studio Express 2005/2008/2010 on Windows)
Dev-cpp 4.9.9.2 itself has alot of issues
get a better IDE
http://wiki.gamedev.net/index.php/C:Development_Environments
I tried lcc-win32 and it still would not compile
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try the old and trusted way of a mingw/msys combination...
well here is the error text
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