just wondering, does anyone here know of any tutorials for borland C++ Builder? It looks like a good alternative to MFC, its alot easier but I can only find a few (say 20) really basic tutorials (on google) unlike the hundreds for MFC
thanks tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "botman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:57 PM Subject: [hlcoders] Building SDK 2.2 with the Borland or MinGW C++ compilers... > I finished the patches to SDK 2.2 to allow you to build the server DLL and the > client DLL with the freely available Borland or MinGW C++ compilers. > > Download the SDK 2.2 source code zip file from the valve-erc.com website. > > Download my SDK 2.2 patches from here... > > http://planethalflife.com/botman/building.shtml > > Download either the Borland or MinGW C++ compiler (URLs are on my website). > > 1. Install the unmodified SDK 2.2 source code. > > 2. Unzip the patches, read the ReadMe.txt file and follow the directions... > Unzip Patch_Full.zip for the Full SDK... OR > Unzip Patch_Standard.zip for the Standard SDK > Run the "DO_PATCH" batch file to modify the SDK source code files. > > 3. Install and configure the compiler > > 4. Modify the Makefile in the "cl_dll" and "dlls" folder for you MOD. > > 5. Run "make" in the dlls folder to build the server DLL. > > 6. Run "make" in the cl_dll folder to build the client DLL. > > The Makefiles will automatically copy the DLLs to the proper MOD directory (for > whatever path you set up in the Makefile). > > The client DLL is built with VGUI support disabled. I have created a > NoVGUI.dll file that initializes the display and takes care of painting the > background to render video frames. Since the scoreboard in SDK 2.2 was a VGUI > scoreboard, I have replaced this with the "classic" scoreboard from SDK 1.0 > (oldschool style!). > > There's even an included cl_dll_novgui.dsp file in the cl_dll folder to allow > you to build the modified VGUI-less client DLL using Microsoft Visual C++. > > All of the changes are backward compatible with MSVC 6.0 and will work with > older versions of the gcc compiler on Linux (egcs-1.1.2) but they will also > compile cleanly using gcc 2.96 (which comes with RedHat 7.2). I am still > building gcc 3.0.4 (it's been 6 hours now building it) so I don't know if > things are compatible with gcc 3.0.4, but I would think it should also work > just fine (update: it just finished building as I was typing this, I'll try > compiling everything tomorrow). > > The only bug I haven't been able to fix is trying to get the MinGW compiler to > properly save function pointers in the Save/Restore stuff in single player. > The Borland compiler handles this correctly (using my namefunc.cpp file to > handle the non-MSVC C++ name mangling that the Half-Life engine uses). > > Now that people can build both the server and the client DLL using freely > available compilers, it should allow more people who couldn't afford MSVC to be > able to play around with building MODs for Half-Life. > > Jeffrey "botman" Broome > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
