Compile Question

[Emo]

Today I tired compiling this application and it said that it could not run the program cl.exe
When I tried to run it manually, it said it can't find MSPDB60.DLL which is needed to start the app!
Where can I get this dll and where do I put it afterwords? in the System folder?

Thanks!
-Emo

[denniswrenn]

Put it in [VS Install path]\Common\MSDev98\Bin

[Emo]

Thanks a lot dennis...

By the way, I was trying to compile your code that you gave in the VB forum and I noticed this..

-Emo

[denniswrenn]

I usually don't go in the vb forum at all, but I am so incredibly bored tonight

[Emo]

I can see

Anyway, for some reason if I try to compile your code, it says it can't run that cl.exe... but if I try to compile something else, it works!

on yours it says...

Compiling...
Hello Worlds.cpp
c:\........\hello world.cpp(10) : fatal error C1010: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header directive
Error executing cl.exe.

Hello World.obj - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

???

[denniswrenn]

Works fine for me

[Emo]

I don't know...

It's a Win32 Console App right?

-Emo

[denniswrenn]

Yep... Hmmmm, this is odd, I'll look into it more when I install VC++(just installed Win2k this evening and am still putting all my goodies on it )

[Emo]

I'll try it with Dev-C++...

-Emo

[denniswrenn]

Look in Tools -> Options -> Directories. And make sure you see C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include


If you see that, then check to make sure all the include files are in the directory(compare them with your disk)...

[Emo]

Well, I tried it with Dev-C++ and it works fine...

Also, I just made a new project and I told it to make a simple hello world app and the code was different than yours.. how come?? (That worked by the way )

-Emo

[denniswrenn]

I am using the iostream header file, which is only available to C++(you can't use it in C), but they use stdio.h with the printf statement, which dates back to C... I prefer to use iostream, because I learned the basics of C++ with that, but you can use printf as well, but it's much more of a pain... Take a look at both methods to print out "I am 69 years old, and will soon be 70" on the screen with both numbers stored as variables:

using stdio.h and printf:

int a = 69, b = 70;
printf("I am %d years old, and will soon be %d\n", a, b);

iostream.h

int a = 69, b = 70;
cout << "I am " << a << " years old, and will soon be " << b << endl;

Although #2 was a little more tedius to write, printf style strings can get really confusing, and will be a pain to figure out.


-Dennis

PS: I'm not really 69, I just really like that number

[Emo]

Thanks for clearing that up for me...

And yes, who doesn't like 69? Actually I like 34½ but it's not fair not giving my share of the other 34½ for all the work she does

-Emo

[parksie]

The precompiled headers thing is a way of speeding up long compiles (many files). Anyway, if you install VC properly there should be no need to move files like this around.

[Emo]

Yesterday, I found the complete source of Quake 1 and when I tried compiling it, it game me an error...

(Man, that's a big project(game))

-Emo