Is the current tide of opinion to go with MS Visual C++ Express or Dev-C++?
well msvc is vastly better in just about every way if you can stand the fact that it’s by Microsoft…
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I’m satisfied with that. Downloading and installing… 
I’m using codeblocks with MS VC 2003 toolkit. (I’ve had no problems 'cept when Jules left links to ODBC in the plug in demo project file. :lol: grumble grumble)
But the only advantages to VC Express is probably that it’s a bit lighter and you don’t have to have .Net installled.
When I try to do the build everything hums along for a while then I get a string of errors here is the first…
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_AudioCDReader.cpp
By the way where do I set the include and lib paths? In a file? in msvc?
Thanks
Here is the entire error list if it helps…
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_AudioCDReader.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_DirectSound.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_DynamicLibraryLoader.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_FileChooser.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Files.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Fonts.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Messaging.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Midi.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Misc.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Network.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
Generating Code…
Compiling…
juce_win32_PlatformUtils.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_SystemStats.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Threads.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
juce_win32_Windowing.cpp
c:\mycode\juce\build\win32\platform_specific_code\win32_headers.h(50) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘windows.h’: No such file or directory
Yeah, VC Express does not include any windows platform files so you’ll need to get a hold of a windows platform SDK.
Search the forum. The latest one should work now, I think, or there is the prior version that is available as an archive somewhere.
Either way ,you only have to install the core header files. (Though I usually install the text based debugger because it makes me feel like I know what I’m doing.)
Then you add the path to the lib and include directories to you compiler and linker settings. I am pretty sure there is a web page about it somewhere, but the exact location eludes me at the moment. Maybe the download page?
inside the juce tree there’s a docs directory with a page in it about this stuff…
get the platform sdk here
linked from here