Visual c++ to Bloodshed

ThunderSnake

Im working on a project using the quake 3 gpl, and I need to find a way to covert the Visual studio 6 project file into a Bloodshed Dev-C++ project file. I have worked a lot with visual studio in the past, but my team wants to do this project with all gnu and gpl tools.

CrazyButcher

we are using mixed compilers here as well, I use msvc, while friend the gpl stuff. Although we have our own project files, the IDE he uses could import msvc stuff:
http://www.codeblocks.org/

Ryan Clark

Have you tried just manually re-creating each project file in dev-c++, and then fixing the build errors one-by-one? I guess that sounds kinda tedious.

Quake3 builds with GNU tools in Linux already. Maybe you could just develop your project on Linux? Or maybe you could massage the linux build-process to work under Cygwin?

You'd think someone would have created a dev-c++ project for Quake3 already, but cursory googling doesn't turn it up.

Good luck!

jogshy

You can try this: Open the project in VC6.. and generate a makefile.
Then download Netbeans ( www.netbeans.org ) or Eclipse ( www.eclipse.org ) and try to import it...
But personally I would see what files are needed and i'll create a new project from zero in your favourite IDE.

Black_Dog

I think you'll find working with DevC++ painful. It's abandoned (last release 2005), some of the features are broken, it's built on an ancient version of gcc, and it's basically not up to scratch.

If you're after a modern, free and open ide then look at eclipse or code::blocks.

ThunderSnake

Code blocks looks like its going to work out for now, thanks guys.