Compiling the Editor on Windows

[Ishad Nha]

Does anyone know how to compile the 3D Editor source code on Windows? I have the Dev C++ compiler and I can't compile because I keep getting errors, only about 11 of them. (Which is a lot lot less than trying to compile the official BoA Editor.)

 

I am starting to port the Exile classic "Shadow of the Stranger", and I need to handle the dead zone of terrain types 122:169, the zone where the editor assigns the terrain translations. (Here I can't just hex - edit the editor's translation tables.)

[Niemand]

I was using Dev C++ to recompile the code a while back and had no major difficulty. What were the error messages you saw?

[Ishad Nha]

I am using ver 4 Bloodshed Dev C++ on Windows XP.

 

Actually there were 31 errors, the ones listed below were reported in the message window. For brevity's sake I omitted most of the "warning: `#pragma once' is obsolete" messages. I just add the cpp and h files then try to compile.

 

In file included from c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades

editor\win3dreleasesource\source\townout.cpp:1:

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\stdafx.h:3: warning: `#pragma once' is obsolete

 

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a editor.cpp:280: ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from `void *' in argument passing

 

In file included from c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp:26:

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp: In function `bool init_directories_with_user_input(char *)':

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp:412: warning: NULL used in arithmetic

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp: In function `void port_boe_out_data()':

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp:2208: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp: In function `void clean_str(char *)':

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp:4595: implicit declaration of function `int isalpha(...)'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\bl a fileio.cpp:4595: implicit declaration of function `int isdigit(...)'

In file included from c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\cmemstream.cpp:1:

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\StdAfx.h:3: warning: `#pragma once' is obsolete

In file included from c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\cmemstream.cpp:2:

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:238: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `INT_PTR' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:238: warning: `__stdcall__' attribute directive ignored

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:238: parse error before `('

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp: In function `short int cd_create_dialog(short int, HWND__ *)':

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:619: `dummy_dialog_proc' undeclared (first use this function)

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:619: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:619: for each function it appears in.)

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp: At top level:

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:645: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `INT_PTR' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:645: warning: `__stdcall__' attribute directive ignored

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:645: redefinition of `int INT_PTR'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:238: `int INT_PTR' previously declared here

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:645: parse error before `('

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:656: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `free_slot' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:659: parse error before `switch'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:664: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `dlgs' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:664: variable-size type declared outside of any function

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:664: conflicting types for `int dlgs[2]'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:85: previous declaration as `struct HWND__ * dlgs[15]'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:675: invalid initializer

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:677: parse error before `for'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:677: parse error before `;'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:677: syntax error before `++'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:680: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `str_offset' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:680: conflicting types for `int str_offset'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:652: previous declaration as `short int str_offset'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:681: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `dlg_highest_item' with no type

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:681: variable-size type declared outside of any function

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:681: conflicting types for `int dlg_highest_item[2]'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:87: previous declaration as `short int dlg_highest_item[15]'

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades editor\win3dreleasesource\source\dlogtool.cpp:681: `i' was not declared in this scope

c:\program files\blades of avernum\blades

[Niemand]

Ok, some of these aren't bad, you'll just have to go through and fix them. Not having the code in front of me I can't handle them all, but I think I can point out what to do about a few:

 

- '#pragma once' is a nonstandard compiler directive to insure that a file is included only once to in other files that might otherwise include it via two different paths. The correct replacement is an

include guard .

 

- 'isdigit' and 'isalpha' should come from ctype.h, make sure that it is included in the files where the errors referring to these functions occur.

 

- concerning 'implicit conversion from `void *' ' I would try making sure to use an explict cast so that the type of the parameter matches the type expected by the function.

 

- Most of the rest stem from the compiler being confused by that INT_PTR CALLBACK thing. To be honest i don't know what that is; it looks like something that comes from windows.h, so you might take a look at this , it appears to explain some of this stuff.

[Ishad Nha]

Kelandon’s site has the Comprehensive BoA Links page, towards the end of it you will find the BoA Editor Re-Make Project entry, with a link to the relevant area on the Sourceforge site. The source code is found at this address:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129871

 

I am of course attempting to use the Windows code, I think there was only one version of it ever released.

 

Now the Editor was developed by a group under Kernel Knowledge, he said he uses KDevelop, which I think is a Linux program. There may be a few language – dependent things in the code.

 

I will now have to try out the suggestions you made, so far not a lot of luck.