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- Visual C++ 6 compile instructions for versions 0.60 up
- Earlier versions
- What to do after you compile

Visual C++ 6 compile instructions (for versions 0.60 up):

Step 1:
Download the source code from our Project's File Page.

Get the Final Frontier Trader VC6 dependencies from fftrader-devel-VC6.zip. This package includes:
SDL 1.2.7 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6
SDL_mixer 1.2.5 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6
SDL_image 1.2.3 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6, EXCLUSIVELY precompiled against libpng 1.0.15 (fixes a win32 crash issue with PNGs)
SDL_ttf 2.0.6 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6
SDL_gfx 2.0.10 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6
PHYSFS 1.0.0 DLLs, libs, includes for VC6
Step 2:
Extract the source code into a directory you intend to work in. Extract the other files you downloaded to C:\SDL with directories. If you do this right, you should have a few directories in C:\SDL. The others should be in SDL-1.2.7, SDL_mixer-1.2.5, SDL_image-1.2.3, SDL_ttf-2.0.6, SDL_gfx-2.0.10, and physfs-1.0.0 directories.
Step 3:
Open Visual C++ 6. Go to Tools->Options, select the Directories tab, and Show directories for Include files. Add the following directories:

C:\SDL\SDL-1.2.7\Include
C:\SDL\SDL_mixer-1.2.5\Include
C:\SDL\SDL_image-1.2.3\Include
C:\SDL\SDL_ttf-2.0.6\Include
C:\SDL\SDL_gfx-2.0.10\Include
C:\SDL\physfs-1.0.0\Include

Now Show directories for Library files. Add these directories:

C:\SDL\SDL-1.2.7\Lib
C:\SDL\SDL_mixer-1.2.5\Lib
C:\SDL\SDL_image-1.2.3\Lib
C:\SDL\SDL_ttf-2.0.6\Lib
C:\SDL\SDL_gfx-2.0.10\Lib
C:\SDL\physfs-1.0.0\Lib
NOTE: If you extracted the development files somewhere else, those are the directories you will have to add.

You will only have to do this once unless you uninstall Visual C++.
Step 4:
Open fft.dsp in Visual C++ 6.
Step 5:
Compile!!!
Earlier versions than 0.60 are no longer supported.

What to do after you compile:

Copy the DLLs from each of the packages you downloaded (found in their respective lib directories) to the project's root directory.