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zzz

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Posted: 17th Apr 2008 20:10 Edited at: 17th Apr 2008 20:12

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Hi,
I´m going to use DarkGDK for a school project and since we only have visual studio 2005 in our school(computers with safety cards),
I was wondering if the darkGDK is also compatible with the 2005 version?

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jinzai

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Posted: 17th Apr 2008 20:20

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I don't see any impediments, although you will have to set it up manually. I have considered doing the same for VS2003, but I've already created the ability to use DBPro DLLs from my own code in VS2003. Also, I just uninstalled VS2005 from my system, so I don't have a pressing need for it right now.

If you want to proceed, perhaps I can set it up on my machine for use with VS2003. I'm not sure that I want, or need the wizards, but if you want, I suppose I could modify them. You can import wizards and solutions and projects from previous versions, but you cannot go back in time by importing newer ones.

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Posted: 17th Apr 2008 20:59

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Ok, thanks for the quick answer. You don´t have to set it up on your machine, I´ll do some experimenting on my own, it´s not a problem if the wizards doesn´t work.

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Posted: 18th Apr 2008 00:41

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I have vs2005 and it works fine here

You can't use the project wizard, and it took a while to find out the correct settings to use (Why static linking???

) but it works

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Posted: 18th Apr 2008 03:15

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That's great news, Diggsey.

Static linking avoids the need to distribute DLLs, like DBPro must contend with. It also makes the resultant code faster and more stable in the face of our programming experiments! I think I will go ahead and study the wizards a bit, it would help, especially if combined with some of the other stuff people are doing to interface the API to different development systems.

I certainly like VS2003 enough to prefer mine over a less capable version of VS2008 with no resource editor, or the other stuff I'd lose. I was even thinking about trying to integrate DBPro into that IDE. It would save me alot of task switching and plug-in copying.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 11:35

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Quote: "to find out the correct settings"

So, do you remember the correct settings?
I you do, feel free to share them with me.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 12:46

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Well, you need the /MT set. Under the preprocessor definitions, in debug mode it should say _DEBUG. Change it to _NDEBUG. (You will still be able to debug it as long as you have the 'generate debug info' option set. Also, add these libraries to the ignore option under linker:
quartz
atls
msvcrt
libcmtd

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 22:57 Edited at: 19th Apr 2008 22:58

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Ah, great! Quite a lot of settings there. Since I´m a newbie at c++ this will help me a lot, thanks!