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MS releases a free C++ compiler

see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...26606&SiteID=1 for more details.

mods, move or delete if you want-need to.. i happened to come across this and thought i would share

FOR 1 YEAR!!!!! If you REALLY need a free Windows C/C++(god forbid) compiler get MingW.

EDIT: I was wrong sorry, I gotta get my hands on these.... C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++(.NET), screw MSSQL, but still, woohooo.

I agree. Get MinGW. :)

Get MinGW... then try to get eqemu to work under it... :)

Yes GNU/GPL power :)

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Originally Posted by fathernitwit

Get MinGW... then try to get eqemu to work under it... :)

Hey, also, if you cant compile it nativley on MingW, you can compile it on Cygwin and it will compile a Windows Binary, but using the Linux libraries, basically Cygwin is a POSIX 'emulation' layer(acuatlly, exactly what it is), so anything you can compile on Linux can be compiled through it, but at a ~1/3 hit on performance, or you can try Services for Unix, but whatever. Just FYI. Actually, I should make a how-to to compile EQEMU under MingW and Cygwin....steal my idea if you want, will save me the time :P

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anything you can compile on Linux can be compiled through it,

Not -everything-...

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Originally Posted by Cisyouc

Not -everything-...

(most) everything, is that better???

Don't stop your work stefann
I think eqemu compilation on free C++ is a good thing for all eqemu's user
All don't want go on linux for mod her source...
And Microsoft's stuff is expensive (And piracy is a crime :p).

my post was not clear enough apparently... I have tried quite a bit to get emu to build and work under cygwin, and have not had any success... but carry on.

heres what I have checked in as a makefile.cygwin:

Code:



HCC=$(shell ccache -V 2>/dev/null)

ifneq (,$(findstring version,$(HCC)))

        CC=ccache gcc

else

        CC=gcc

endif



LINKER=gcc

MYSQL_FLAGS=-I/cygdrive/c/mysql/include

MYSQL_LIB=-L/cygdrive/c/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv -lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv

DFLAGS=-DEQDEBUG=5 -DCATCH_CRASH -DNO_PIDLOG -DSHAREMEM -DSPELL_EFFECT_SPAM -DFIELD_ITEMS -DCOMBINED -DAPP_OPCODE_SIZE=2

#try commenting out the following three lines to disable embedded perl

PERL_FLAGS=perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts

PERL_LIB=perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts

DFLAGS+=-DEMBPERL -DEMBPERL_PLUGIN -DHAS_UNION_SEMUN

WFLAGS=-Wall -Wuninitialized -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual  -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-deprecated  -Wcomment -Wcast-align

COPTS=$(WFLAGS) -O -g -pg -march=i686 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINVERSEXY -DFX -DZONE $(DFLAGS) $(MYSQL_FLAGS)

LINKOPTS=-rdynamic -L. -lstdc++ -ldl -lpthread $(MYSQL_LIB)



all: zone



include .depend



include makefile.common



.depend depend:

        echo $(SF) "" | sed -e 's#.obj/#../common/#g' -e 's/\.o/.cpp/g' | \

        xargs gcc -MM $(COPTS) `$(PERL_FLAGS)` >.depend

Did you make sure to install the compilers and libraries needed by EQEMU under Cygwin???
EDIT: When I get home(at school, 14 years old, Jr. High sux) I'll try to see what I can do compiling it under CYGWIN, I have a 3 day weekend and all the time I want on my mom's 1.2GhZ AMD PC.

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Originally Posted by Belfedia

the link is to a FREE C++ from microsoft.. IF you get it in the next year

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Originally Posted by wize_one

the link is to a FREE C++ from microsoft.. IF you get it in the next year

ehem 'free' and 'microsoft' don't really mix, besides, if you REALLY want to learn/compile C++ code NOT written for M$'s .NET framework, it's not even worth it. Besides MingW is the direct Windows port of GCC(GNU(GNU's Not Unix) Compiler Collection) and is for one Open Source(GPL!! GPL!!!), still FREE(Bah, I know M$'s is, but whatever), AND on top of all of that its around a 20-50mb download last time I checked, compared to up to 600MB for Visual Studio Express Edition C++. Maybe I'm a Micro$oft basher, oh wait, I AM!!! I ONLY, ONLY, use Windows for my gaming, everything else can be done just as well(if not better) in Linux so *middle finger* Microsoft. Anyways getting off-topic, but yeah, why use a bloated Microsoft C++ compiler instead of a port of the best free C/C++ compiler in histroy.

Fathernitwit, the Wiki seems out of date, I can't get the code off the CVS tree. What branch do I need to use?