I've been away for a while... So I tried downloading the 2.2 source... and I get a dialog asking me where to save the file and the file very, very, very quickly downloads (surprisingly so...). Then I look at the file in Windows Explorer and it is 0 kb. I double-click on it, and I get an error dialog saying:

"C:\temp\GameCode2[1].2.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

Mike, can you verify the file is intact on your server?

Hello Mike,

How big is the code once extracted?

[Edit]About 75 MB[/Edit]

I've downloaded the GameCode2[1].2.exe file and ran it to get a "Program too big to fit in memory" message at the command prompt.

[Edit]It's only a problem I have with the .exe self extractor. When I use UltimateZip to extact it mannully everything is fine[/Edit]

Thanks
Colm Mac

[Edit - 17 June]Answered my own questions and problems.

P.S Finished the book today. Great book Mike. [/Edit]

Originally posted by mrmike

NOTE: This code was tested on VC 2003 - for those 2005 users you'll need to do a little tweaking to get rid of warnings and fix some other minor problems.

Can anyone elaborate on this?

I have downloaded vs2005 C++ and made it through most of the problems, by following the instructions for vs2003.
I downloaded Directx SDK and then pointed vs2005 to it.
I downloaded Platform SDK W2k3 and pointed Vs2005 to it.

I am down to the last problem, which is this...

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atltypes.h': No such file or directory

Any thoughts anyone...

Thanks in Advance,

Gerry

Originally posted by gwashburn
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atltypes.h': No such file or directory

Any thoughts anyone...

Thanks in Advance,

Gerry

Yup! Check it out:
mcshaffry.com/GameCode/thread.…ght=CRect&hilightuser=525

-Rez

Thanks,

I take it the Express editions wont work with ALT/MFC. I read that Somewhere, but it didn't click.
I have VS 2003 VC++ from previous MSDN Subscription. Is that my better choice?
I figured since MSFT released the 2005 Express Editions and they work with their new game development platform "XNA", that they would be robust enough for my meager development efforts.
I am primarily a VB programmer. Haven't touched C++ in long time. Most corporate database applications are written in VB with SQL hence I've been living in that realm for quite sometime. My main goal is to setup a decent Game Development Platform for myself. I've also setup Code Blocks with Borland C++ 5.5 Compiler and Turbo Debugger as well. Any thoughts which way to go?

Thanks,

Gerry

Mike or Kain might correct me, but I believe The original engine was written using VS 2003, so that's probably your best best. You're correct in that the express version doesn't have ATL support, which is where your problem lies. You can always just write the classes yourself (or copy & paste mine).

-Rez

Are you working with VS2005 C++ Express? Any other gotchas you know of? I really wanted to use their latest IDE so I could get some experience with it and determine whether or not I would want to upgrade. Cost not really an issue, but is it worth the effort, as time is an isuue. Since I am still primarily using vb6 and vb2003 at work, and it looks like it will be a while before they will change and use the latest toolsets, I figured I would immerse myself in my own project with the latest tools.

Thanks for the help,

Gerry

No, we use the full version of Visual Studio 2005 here. ATL support is the only issue I know of, but there are others on here who use it quite a bit and would know better than I. I have absolutely fallen in love with the debugging support, especially with the STL. Walking through a std::map is soooooo much nicer!

-Rez

Well I loaded up my MSDN version of VS2005 Professional and made what I thought were all the appropriate changes and am still getting an error, but different then before.

Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'resource.h': No such file or directory d:\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\gamecode v2.2\source\gamecode.h 42
So I am now looking to solve this one...Quite the project this has become...

Gerry

I'm getting the same thing. I converted the project to studio 2005...wonder if that had anything to do with it. I'm also getting a few more files missing.

c:\projects\gamecode v2.2\source\gamecode.h(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'resource.h': No such file or directory
PhysicsEventListener.cpp
c:\projects\gamecode v2.2\source\physics\physicseventlistener.cpp(45) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'NxActor.h': No such file or directory
PhysicsStream.cpp
c:\projects\gamecode v2.2\source\physics\physicsstream.cpp(7) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'NxPhysics.h': No such file or directory
GameCode2.cpp

forgot to install the physics sdk, so i'll get back in when I get that figured out..it still bothers me that there is no resource.h in the zip though.

resource.h is missing from the zip file. search the forum for resource.h and there should be a link to the file.

As for the others, when doing the build make sure the dropdown at the top says "debug-nophysics" instead of just "debug".

Found resource.h here for those facing the same problem. Thanks Jerry, as you helped me compile it. Now for a different question. How long does it take Agea to email login info? I applied for an account on the 20th of january...recieved an email stating that I would later receive my login info, and am still waiting.

I first tackled this a year ago and at the time got the physics stuff working. If I remember right it took 1 or 2 business days.

I just started getting back into the project on a new computer, and haven't attemped to download the physics package yet. So I'm not sure how long the wait is these days. I suspect it wouldn't be more than a couple days.

Hmm, maybe I'll re-apply for an account, it's possible my request was lost in the shuffle 2 weeks ago.

it took at least 2 weeks for them to get my account up and running. That was about 6 months ago. I think maybe they need more employs over there.

hmm...a year ago 2 days...
6 months ago 2 weeks...
...[sarcasm]ok i'll have this in about 2 months then.[/sarcasm]

thanks for the info daglamier22...i'll just sit on this one for a while.

I do not have a multi-core computer at my disposal so I have to ask those that do. (I believe this is the appropriate section to ask, as it's related to the source code.)

I wonder, how does the function GetCPUSpeed() behave on multi-core computers (especially the most recent ones designed to get the most out of single-thread apps)?

I fear that the information obtained will be inaccurate.

If it runs correctly and returns the speed of a single core, can we detect the presence of multi-core processors (or at least the processor name or product id, so that this information may be inferred)?

Check the processor's assembly instruction set and see if it returns that info in it's CPU info structure. It probably does and you can detect a dual-core processor if this field in the info structure does not exist or is empty. Most old assembly language CPU identification tricks worked in a similar fashion - try something and if it fails you fall back to other stuff until you get a positive and that must be your processor... lol.

Of course, this assumes that the CPU's identification routine is compatible with your assembler.

Um, enough rambling - I'd say go to Intel and AMD and look up their instructions on programatically identifying their CPUs.