Building Win32 binaries from source?

[James Weatherall]

Mike,

You need to build Release or Debug, not Debug_Unicode.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike Scott
> Sent: 24 November 2004 18:17
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Building Win32 binaries from source?
> 
> Thanks James,
> 
> Your note renewed my interest in trying to figure this out 
> (Remember that I have never used MSVC6 - all my C experience 
> is outdated command line compiler stuff).
> 
> Options under the Build menu didn't really do anything.  I 
> just discovered that you can set the Active Project, and the 
> current project from the download was Xregion.  I set this to 
> winvnc, and then tried a "Build winvnc4.exe".  This time, my 
> PC got busy compiling.... then stopped with this error:
> 
> Updating buildTime
> buildTime.cxx
> fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler generated file:
> 'Debug\buildTime.obj': No such file or directory
> 
> There isn't a folder called Debug (there IS one called 
> Debug_Unicode however).  This first attempted build is on an 
> untouched download of the sources from yesterday.  I'm going 
> to continue my digging.  Comments welcome if I'm missing the 
> obvious.  -thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
> Behalf Of James Weatherall
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: 'Mike Scott'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Building Win32 binaries from source?
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> The VNC 4 source code is designed to be built under MSVC 6.  
> You just load it and build the relevant project, or batch 
> build them all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 
> 
> > Subject: Building Win32 binaries from source?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wish to make some code tweaks specific to my needs, but 
> can't find 
> > any docs on the re-compiling process.  I just downloaded 
> the current 
> > Win32 sources.  Clicking vnc.dsw in the vnc-4.0-winsrc 
> folder launches 
> > Microsoft Visual C++ with all the bits loaded up (I have 
> Visual Studio 
> > 6 SP5, but so far only use VB and FoxPro).  I can find the areas of 
> > code I wish to change, but it is not clear how to build the viewer, 
> > server, or wm_hooks.dll from the IDE.
> >
> > The most current topic I could find in the archives was 
> from March of 
> > 2004, which indicates the Borland C++ compiler could be the 
> way to go.
> >
> > -with thanks
> > Mike Scott
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