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Post by Chill » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:54 am

wow :shock:

So much love, and he's just trying to compile.

Wait until he wants to get random.mac or the MQ2KEIBot plugin and cant find them after 6 hours of searching MSDN. I can feel the collective discouragement coming on now. :twisted:

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Post by fice » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:04 am

I think there way too many posts on how to compile on these boards; compiling MQ2 is so simple they shouldn't even exist :P

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Post by HowTo » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:24 am

I was where you are. I could not figure out where to get VB6++ (actually I think I have more like V 6++ or somesuch. Not at home atm so cannot say for sure). Eventually I read everything again and figured out something that helped me. Firstly, you do not appear very net savy. This means you do not understand just why they want to protect their code. View topics that others have posted and you will see with amazing alacrity the answer to the first and most important question. Where can I get VB?

The other reason for me saying you are not very net savy is because you would have what you seek by now. I am not net savy. I make that up for that with determination and willingness to learn. Hi, my name is HowTo and I am a new MQ user. I have NFI what I am doing mostly but slowly I am learning. That said, it is nearly impossible to screw up your system trying so just jump in there and try to follow along as you do. I hate reading manuals because I do better hands on but so far I have had an amazing lucky streak.

Now about finding VB. If you really are pressed for it, I may share w/you a tale or two about a man on a mission that used everything, every word he could to find it.


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Post by fearless » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:47 am

Okay HowTo . . . what the fuck are you smokin.
Reading . . . it's not just for me.

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Post by magictiger » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:35 pm

Yeah... get you some VB. Just don't be bitching when MQ2 won't compile SINCE IT'S NOT FUCKING WRITTEN IN visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me).

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Post by p$ » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:11 pm

Guiding the Clueless and Idiots since '97.

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Post by HowTo » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:31 pm

Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is what I was referring to. Afterall, I did say I was not sure I had the exact name right. As for what I am smoking, not a thing. Misnamed the product; yes I did. Find it on the net for free? That I did too. I basically said in a roundabout way to look harder and look for keywords. Failing to find it I may be inclined to help point this person towards the answer but part of the fun is finding it yourself.



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Compiler question - clarify

Post by CryptWyrm » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:49 pm

I own a copy of what I thought was the right compiler for the job, I may be wrong. I did read and search multiple times to be sure before posting.. believe me.

I merely need a yes or no answer if anyone can and knows for sure.

Will Visual C#.Net Standard Edition compile MQ2? I have searched on the error: " makefile(1) : fatal error U1052: file '../global.mak' not found" that I keep getting, I am just making sure that this is not the particular "close but not quite" Microsoft Compiler I have .. perhaps?

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Post by fearless » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:01 pm

C# is not C++.
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Post by notadruid » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:55 pm

Visual Studio 6 = Visual C++ 6 = VC++6 = VC6++ = VS6
Visual Studio/C++ .NET, same deal.

Any Visual Studio/C++ .NET / Visual Studio/C++ 6 WILL compile.

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Post by Cynic » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:15 am

nm..
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Post by MrSmallie » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:48 am

OMG. Please don't make this thread active again. It hurt my eyes the first time I had to wade through it. The guy wasn't completely clueless, he just didn't want to buy xtra crap he didn't need.
Let it rest.
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how to add plugins and run em

Post by stjohas » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:37 am

Ok yes I am new to this, I am a Hardware woman not a software gal. :D

I got a copy of Visual Studios .net 2003 so I could compile all this and I did that and it looks like it works Cheer!

My question is I see these macro's I would like to get in here like for foraging and trade skills, how do I add those in the compile? where do I put them etc. and then the stupid question I know how do I use them? Meaning ok I have program running how do I tell it to start doing the tradeskill on or what ever?

thank you in advance for your help, for the new Gal on the block trying to figure this all out

Stjohas

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Post by Woosh » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:40 am

you dont have to compile macros, copy and paste them into a .doc, make sure show file extensions is on, and change the name of the file to "whatever.mac" then put em in the release>macro folder. in game type /mac <filename> and enjoy.