COMPILE: Getting the source to compile

[Locutus]

I think berXpert knows very well what autoexec.bat is, but he was trying to convey the complete irrelevance (if not non-existance) of that file in WinXP.

See Mr Ogre's post earlier in this thread on how to do that step in WinXP.

[The Big Mc]

well i hate reading five pages of forum posts

[berXpert]

As I noted a smile on your face I though you were joking.

I don't edit that file, just add those lines to my System Variables

[Keygen]

I think he was joking Big Mc
At list that is the impression I got

BTW, autoexec.bat is not needed to be altered in Windows Operating systems with the NT kernel. You can set environmental variables instead.

EDIT: I skiped this page and obviously didn't read the posts that followed

[Peter Triggs]

I can't build ctpdb.exe. One problem seems to be that lex.yy.c (which doesn't exist at this point) is both an input and an output. How did you guys overcome this?

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs
I can't build ctpdb.exe. One problem seems to be that lex.yy.c (which doesn't exist at this point) is both an input and an output. How did you guys overcome this?

Which one do you mean, Peter. There are two of them one in ..\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\ and one in ..\ctp2_code\gs\slic\. And note these files have the same name but not the same content I tried to replace the slic one by the dbgen one and it doesn't work. What I know is that the slic one is built when you compile another version of the *.exe first the file is built. Unfortunatly I don't have any idea why the file isn't saved in the debug configuration.

-Martin

[Peter Triggs]

flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source file, `lex.yy.c', which defines a routine `yylex()'. This file is compiled and linked with the `-lfl' library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.

Here's the whole top page: http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/

So one will be for the database files and the other for the slic files (but I haven't got there yet, cause I can't get past the bloody database).

[Martin Gühmann]

Maybe it helps if you use other project files you can find my project files in the attachment, if you haven't installed the source code in the C:\activision\CTP2\ folder you have to open them and replace all occurences of C:\activision\CTP2\ by the according path of your CTP2 source code installation. By the way I figuered out why the second version of the lex.yy.c wasn't build under debug conditions. It looks like I cut the flex command out when I adjusted the path. civctp.dsp should go into the ..\ctp2_code\ctp\ folder and dbgen.dsp should go into the ..\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\ folder.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

Well looks like I have uploaded the wrong file, it just contains the CTP2 project file and not the dbgen project file. Here is the file I intended to upload actually.

-Martin

[Peter Triggs]

I did a comparison of my dbgen.dsp with yours and the only difference is that the paths to flex differ (because my Activision folder is in C:Program Files).

Could you zip up lex.yy.c, y.tab.c, and y.tab.h and I'll stick them in the dbgen folder and see what happens.

[Martin Gühmann]

The attachment should contain the files from the dbgen folder you requested, Peter.

-Martin

[The Big Mc]

17. In the “File View” tab of the project window in the left-hand corner, expand the files under “dbgen files”. Right-click “ctpdb.y” and select “Settings…” and click the “Custom Build” tab. In the “Commands” dialogue box, replace “$(CDKDIR)” with “C:\Activision\CTP2\bin”. In the dialogue box to the left, do the same for “ctpdb.l”. Click “OK” to close the dialogue box.

i think i get the same error around step 17 it comes up with one error

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by The Big Mc
i think i get the same error around step 17 it comes up with one error

So could you post the error message The Big Mc?

-Martin

[Peter Triggs]

Success!!!

At least now I have a ctpdb.exe.

Thanks Martin.

[J Bytheway]

For future reference: If your flex was in Program Files then you need to replace that with Progra~1 in the path. It can't handle spaces.