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Arnk Kilo Dylie - Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:49 pm
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Apprently this is rocket science, so instead of handling this case by case, I've put together some files and a guide for building asss (specifically 1.4.3) in Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003.

These instructions and projects should be complete, but reply back if I forgot something. Extract to your asss 1.4.3 directory but if you've modified persist.c, objects.c, cmod.c, or pymod.c, back those up first and refer to the guide about those files afterwards. The guide is msvc71_guide.txt. This may or may not work for newer versions of MSVC.

One issue I've thought of off hand, is if you don't use the guide to make your own solutions, make sure you edit the Pre-Build Events to have the correct path to Python, they default to c:\program files\python235 since that was where mine was.

Enjoy?

Bak - Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:35 pm
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looks good. Glad to see you figured out the python stuff.

Arnk Kilo Dylie - Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:02 pm
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Revision 1 at same url after boneheadedness on my part.
Revision 2 after more boneheadedness.

It's tough to realize something's missing when your compiler is already set up to have so many include directories. :p

Edit 2: These do have the capability of generating the .inc files that are so elusive without a makefile. neeeat.

Edit 3: It should work now out of the box assuming you installed python to the same place I did.. if not, follow the guide.

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:05 pm
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Updated the mirrored copy here as well.

Solo Ace - Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:06 am
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Nice, will look at it later.

Bleh, I remember trying to get this done once, but I had no idea how to deal with the python stuff.

BDwinsAlt - Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:04 pm
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I'm glad someone took the time to make some use out of windows :)

Very nice.

Muskrat - Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:18 pm
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Well, my suggestion got junked, so I'm trying to use the guide to compile on VC++ 6. I've gotten funky, scoring, and database to compile by following the guide you made, but not asss or pymod.

asss gives me these 2 errors:

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C:\asss\vc6asss\src\core\cfghelp.c(8) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'cfghelp.inc': No such file or directory

C:\asss\vc6asss\src\core\mapdata.c(13) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sparse.inc': No such file or directory

pymod gives me these 2 errors:

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..\..\src\include\win32compat.h(57) : error C2632: 'int' followed by 'int' is illegal

C:\asss\vc6asss\src\pymod\pymod.c(689) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'py_types.inc': No such file or directory

If anyone has any idea as to what I forgot to do please reply.

Also, in the guide from line 80:

msvc71_guide.txt wrote:

in database, add ..\..\mysqlinc to the include directories, and add libmysql.lib to the extra dependencies list.

The ..\..\mysqlinc should be ..\..\windeps\mysqlinc.

Edit:
Okay, I solved the .inc errors and got asss to compile. To fix the problems I had to go through and manually run the scripts because my vc6 was having problems with python.

Pymod still gives that first error and a couple others, but I don't really need pymod atm so its not a problem for me. If others would like the entire project working though, someone will need to help me fix that.

Here's the VC++ 6.0 projects for everything I've made. Look in the projects folders for the projects, and in the settings make sure to change my "c:\python23" in Custom Build to whatever your python directory is.

Like I said, to solve my include problems I just ran the python scripts manually, which if it dosen't work on your machine either you can use the gen_asss/pymod/funky.bat as a guideline.

Good luck!

Bak - Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:20 pm
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You should try using one of the converters to convert it to a VC6 project to see if it works out of the box

Muskrat - Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:42 pm
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I couldn't find any converters that went back to 6, but I'm ok with how it works now for personal use.

Arnk Kilo Dylie - Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:57 pm
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The guide should be fixed now, good find.

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:43 am
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I got it all to work using MSVC++ .NET 2003.

Here's just a suggestion for the bat scripts. I hope you'll implement it.

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@echo off

rem Set DEBUG to echo to turn debugging on.
set DEBUG=rem

rem Backup the current directory in a variable.
rem for /f "delims=" %%i in ('cd') do set CWD=%%i
set CWD=%CD%

set PYTHON=""

cd "%ProgramFiles%"
%DEBUG% Looking for the python executable in %ProgramFiles%...
for /f %%i in ('dir /S /B ^| find "python.exe"') do (
%DEBUG% The python executable was found in %ProgramFiles%:
set PYTHON=%%i
goto found
)

cd %SystemDrive%\
%DEBUG% Looking for the python executable on the system drive (%SystemDrive%)...
for /f %%i in ('dir /S /B ^| find "python.exe"') do (
%DEBUG% The python executable was found:
set PYTHON=%%i
goto found
)

%DEBUG% ^>^>^> %PYTHON%

if ""==%PYTHON% (goto error)

:found
rem echo %PYTHON%
goto done

:error
rem Turn console light-red on black (pretty ugly and stupid, but whatever).
color 0C
echo !!! ERROR: Python executable couldn't be found. Please set variable manually.
goto done

:done
cd %CWD%

rem Insert code from gen_xxx.bat files here.

Arnk Kilo Dylie - Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:24 pm
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o_O

By the way, there has been an issue with the bundled pthreads (apparently both the default windows release dll and mine) that caused a deadlock when a player disconnected, rendering the server all but useless as a real zone server. I have remedied this by updating the pthread.h/pthreadVC.dll/pthreadVC.lib locally, but I have not updated the guide yet, but if you're impatient, just get a new bundle of those files and rebuild.

Anonymous - Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:23 pm
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Unrecoverable error (5): Error in loading module 'security:security'?

using the old security.dll will work? it uses pthreadgc.dll not vc.

Arnk Kilo Dylie - Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:38 am
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Eh, pthreadGC2.dll and security.dll come with the windows release I'm almost certain. Are you sure you have the scrty files in root?

Anonymous - Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:24 pm
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scrty files were missing. thanks