Windows NT Systems Programming: Spring 1999

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How to Compile MsgEdit

Downloading MsgEdit

From The Browser

• You can click on the version from the home page
• From the directory listed, select the files to download (*.cpp ,*.h and *.mak)
  or just download "all.zip"
• After it appears in your browser, save the file in a convenient directory
  (click "File, Save as" in most browsers)
• unzip all.zip if necessary.

From the Lab, all files are accessible from

~wild/public_html/windowsNT/Spring99/Programs

• Copy ~wild/public_html/windowsNT/Spring99/Programs/Verions4/MsgEdit/HomeGrown/* 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" (not strictly correct but will generate simplest project structure)
  • Name your project (for example "msgedit")
    this goes in the "Project Name" box
  • Select any directory for the project (e.g. server) (It is highly recommended that each project goes in its own directory and that it is the same directory you downloaded the files 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 files you downloaded earlier from the server directory
  • Click "OK"
• Change to MFC window programming mode
  • Click "Project/Settings" to get settings dialog box
  • Select "Use MFC in a shared DLL" in the "General" tab
  • Select the "C/C++" tab
  • remove "_CONSOLE" from the preprocessor definitions
  • Select "Link" tab
  • Change the Project Options /subsystem:console to /subsystem:windows
  • Click "OK"
• Build the project
  • Click "Build/Build msgedit.exe"
    If all is well, it will compile and link your project

Compiling from a Console Window

• Open a console window (Command prompt in windows NT or DOS command prompt in Windows 95)
• Change to the directory containing source files
• Type the command "nmake" with the makefile name
• This will compile and link the program and place the output into an appropriate subdirectory

Executing the Program from VC++ IDE

Click "Build/Execute msgedit.exe"

Executing the Program from Console Window

In the Console Window

• change directory to "Release/Debug" as appropriate
• execute "msgedit.exe"

Copyright chris wild 1999.
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Last updated: February 08, 1999.