Windows NT Systems Programming: Spring 1999

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How to Compile Version 0

Downloading Version 0

From The Browser

• You can click on the version from the home page
  (or use this short cut - Version 0)
• From the directory listed, select the file to download (main.cpp for version 0)
• After it appears in your browser, save the file in a convenient directory
  (click "File, Save as" in most browsers)

From the Lab, all files are accessible from

~wild/public_html/Programs

• Copy ~wild/public_html/Programs/Version0/main.cpp to a convenient directory
  (I prefer to keep all interesting files in the UNIX file system and access them from Windows NT)

Compiling using Visual C++ IDE

• Start Visual C++ (Close help dialog if it comes up)
• Create New Project
  • Click "File/New" (or CTL-N) to get project creation dialog box.
  • Select "Win32 Console Application"
  • Name your project (for example "version0")
    this goes in the "Project Name" box
  • Select any directory for the project (It is highly recommended that each project goes in its own directory and that it is the same directory you downloaded "main.cpp" into above)
    this goes in the "Location" box
  • Click "OK" to close dialog box.
• Import source file
  • Click "Project/Add to Project/Files" to get file selection dialog box
  • Select the file you downloaded earlier ("main.cpp")
  • Click "OK"
• Build the project
  • Click "Build/Build version0.exe"
    If all is well, it will compile and link your project

Compiling from a Console Window

• In addition to downloading "main.cpp", also download "Version0.mak" in the first step
• Also you need to set certain environment variables - see notes on this subject
• Open a console window (Command prompt in windows NT or DOS command prompt in Windows 95)
• Change to the directory containing "main.cpp" and "Version0.mak"
• Type the command "nmake Version0.mak"
• This will compile and link the program and place the output into the subdirectory "Debug"

Executing the Program from VC++ IDE

Click "Build/Execute Version0.exe"

Executing the Program from Console Window

In the Console Window

• change directory to "Debug"
• execute "Version0.exe"

Copyright chris wild 1999.
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Last updated: January 20, 1999.