Hypothetically Speaking....

[Maquiladora]

[EPW]

I made -some- progress, but its rather a pain to compile isn't it?

[Maquiladora]

It can be the first time. Once it's done though it's plain sailing.

If you're having problems then post the errors. I'm sure Martin or someone else lurking around will be able to help. I doubt I will, except to post links to helpful posts made by others.

[EPW]

Well, I figured out what I was doing wrong(so far). I am too embarrassed to give details, it is enough to say I misread your instructions at a key point.

[EPW]

Okay, I've established VC doesn't like me. Why the heck is it looking in "cygdrive" during the custom build step. "cygdrive" is part of the cygwin application, which I have uninstalled, and should have nothing to do with ctp2 or VC:

------ Build started: Project: dbgen, Configuration: Final Win32 ------
Performing Custom Build Step
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Activision/Call To Power 2/bin/byacc: f - cannot open "/tmp"
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Custom Build Step"
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Program Files\Activision\Call To Power 2\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\Final\BuildLog.htm"
dbgen - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

[Maquiladora]

Okay, I've established VC doesn't like me. Why the heck is it looking in "cygdrive" during the custom build step. "cygdrive" is part of the cygwin application, which I have uninstalled, and should have nothing to do with ctp2 or VC:

------ Build started: Project: dbgen, Configuration: Final Win32 ------
Performing Custom Build Step
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Activision/Call To Power 2/bin/byacc: f - cannot open "/tmp"
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Custom Build Step"
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Program Files\Activision\Call To Power 2\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\Final\BuildLog.htm"
dbgen - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I think E got the same problem as you here. And see Martin's reply afterward.

[EPW]

Woohoo!!

[Maquiladora]

So tell us all how you fixed the tmp directory thing.

[EPW]

I just added the Environmental variable TMPDIR = C:\tmp.

[Maquiladora]

A clean copy of MSVCRTD.DLL:

[JoeB12345]

I also use nointromovie (or you can remove the CD check and play without a CD, that also skips the intro). Other arguments (that I've yet to try) are notimeslice and runinbackground.

How do you do remove the cd part?

my disk does not read right any more.

[Maquiladora]

How do you do remove the cd part?

my disk does not read right any more.

I can't remember what I did exactly. Just search in the source code for things like CDDRIVE or CDCHECK things like that. It's all inside one small source file and I juts changed one or two lines there.

[Martin Gühmann]

I can't remember what I did exactly. Just search in the source code for things like CDDRIVE or CDCHECK things like that. It's all inside one small source file and I juts changed one or two lines there.

Or compile it as release version. That is an optimized version without the CD-check.

-Martin

[JoeB12345]

Or compile it as release version. That is an optimized version without the CD-check.

-Martin

Can some one do that for me?

[Martin Gühmann]

Can some one do that for me?

And then what, compile the next version, too? And the following too, and so on? I am sorry, but we are not allowed to distribute a version without a CD check.

-Martin