14-11-2003 19:19									#151
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I think berXpert knows very well what autoexec.bat is, but he was trying to convey the complete irrelevance (if not non-existance) of that file in WinXP.

See Mr Ogre's post earlier in this thread on how to do that step in WinXP.

	14-11-2003 21:31									#152
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well i hate reading five pages of forum posts

	15-11-2003 07:15									#153
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As I noted a smile on your face I though you were joking.

I don't edit that file, just add those lines to my System Variables

	15-11-2003 14:26									#154
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I think he was joking Big Mc
At list that is the impression I got

BTW, autoexec.bat is not needed to be altered in Windows Operating systems with the NT kernel. You can set environmental variables instead.

EDIT: I skiped this page and obviously didn't read the posts that followed

	16-11-2003 20:20									#155
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I can't build ctpdb.exe. One problem seems to be that lex.yy.c (which doesn't exist at this point) is both an input and an output. How did you guys overcome this?

	16-11-2003 22:19									#156
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quote: Originally posted by Peter Triggs I can't build ctpdb.exe. One problem seems to be that lex.yy.c (which doesn't exist at this point) is both an input and an output. How did you guys overcome this?

Which one do you mean, Peter. There are two of them one in ..\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\ and one in ..\ctp2_code\gs\slic\. And note these files have the same name but not the same content I tried to replace the slic one by the dbgen one and it doesn't work. What I know is that the slic one is built when you compile another version of the *.exe first the file is built. Unfortunatly I don't have any idea why the file isn't saved in the debug configuration.

-Martin

	16-11-2003 23:41									#157
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quote: flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source file, `lex.yy.c', which defines a routine `yylex()'. This file is compiled and linked with the `-lfl' library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.

Here's the whole top page: http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/

So one will be for the database files and the other for the slic files (but I haven't got there yet, cause I can't get past the bloody database).

	17-11-2003 01:42									#158
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Maybe it helps if you use other project files you can find my project files in the attachment, if you haven't installed the source code in the C:\activision\CTP2\ folder you have to open them and replace all occurences of C:\activision\CTP2\ by the according path of your CTP2 source code installation. By the way I figuered out why the second version of the lex.yy.c wasn't build under debug conditions. It looks like I cut the flex command out when I adjusted the path. civctp.dsp should go into the ..\ctp2_code\ctp\ folder and dbgen.dsp should go into the ..\ctp2_code\gs\dbgen\ folder.

-Martin

Attachment: civctp.zip
This has been downloaded 10 time(s).

	17-11-2003 02:42									#159
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Well looks like I have uploaded the wrong file, it just contains the CTP2 project file and not the dbgen project file. Here is the file I intended to upload actually.

-Martin

Attachment: ctp.zip
This has been downloaded 13 time(s).

	17-11-2003 03:48									#160
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I did a comparison of my dbgen.dsp with yours and the only difference is that the paths to flex differ (because my Activision folder is in C:Program Files).

Could you zip up lex.yy.c, y.tab.c, and y.tab.h and I'll stick them in the dbgen folder and see what happens.

	17-11-2003 04:02									#161
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The attachment should contain the files from the dbgen folder you requested, Peter.

-Martin

Attachment: dbgen.zip
This has been downloaded 9 time(s).

	17-11-2003 04:23									#162
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quote: 17. In the “File View” tab of the project window in the left-hand corner, expand the files under “dbgen files”. Right-click “ctpdb.y” and select “Settings…” and click the “Custom Build” tab. In the “Commands” dialogue box, replace “$(CDKDIR)” with “C:\Activision\CTP2\bin”. In the dialogue box to the left, do the same for “ctpdb.l”. Click “OK” to close the dialogue box.

i think i get the same error around step 17 it comes up with one error

	17-11-2003 04:25									#163
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quote: Originally posted by The Big Mc i think i get the same error around step 17 it comes up with one error

So could you post the error message The Big Mc?

-Martin

	17-11-2003 04:33									#164
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Success!!!

At least now I have a ctpdb.exe.

Thanks Martin.

	17-11-2003 13:29									#165
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For future reference: If your flex was in Program Files then you need to replace that with Progra~1 in the path. It can't handle spaces.

	17-11-2003 18:30									#166
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Duh, that was it. RalphTricky and Vovan mentioned back on page 1 of this thread that flex and bison don't like paths with embedded spaces. How could I have not noticed that "Program Files" has an embedded space.

	17-11-2003 18:51									#167
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quote: Originally posted by Peter Triggs Duh, that was it. RalphTricky and Vovan mentioned back on page 1 of this thread that flex and bison don't like paths with embedded spaces. How could I have not noticed that "Program Files" has an embedded space.

And i guess here lies the big problem people will face converting any code over to different versions - its a lot of code to get through, and one little thing can be a huge headache! Well done on spotting it

	17-11-2003 19:23									#168
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CivCTP_dbg.exe - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Success

HAS anybody else seen the button with no words in it on the main Manu if you click on it. it goes to a sprite editor thing which does not seem to be of any use until you look into the civ3 to ctp unit conversion thread it will allow us to find the hotspots easier

	18-11-2003 02:56									#169
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quote: Originally posted by The Big Mc HAS anybody else seen the button with no words in it on the main Manu if you click on it. it goes to a sprite editor thing which does not seem to be of any use until you look into the civ3 to ctp unit conversion thread it will allow us to find the hotspots easier

If I remember correctly the button says "Test".

Good to know you got it to compile.

-Martin

	18-11-2003 04:23									#170
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it allows you to do more you can open a spr file based on its sprit number then find the perfect hotspot location

	31-03-2004 15:38									#171
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I have just updated my source (after a long break) and have been trying to compile it. There's something very strange about the compilation of the .cdb files (using dbgen) - each one stops the compilation process with an error, but the compilation actually appears to have completed successfully. Does anyone know how the VS6 IDE determines whether a custom build step suffered an error, since it seems to be drawing the wrong conclusion in this case.

	31-03-2004 22:36									#172
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quote: Originally posted by J Bytheway I have just updated my source (after a long break) and have been trying to compile it. There's something very strange about the compilation of the .cdb files (using dbgen) - each one stops the compilation process with an error, but the compilation actually appears to have completed successfully. Does anyone know how the VS6 IDE determines whether a custom build step suffered an error, since it seems to be drawing the wrong conclusion in this case.

Probably because there are already output files but unfortunatly these files do have the wrong content, I provided my files generated by dbgen but Mr. Baggins didn't and therefore you don't have the government functionality in.

I suspect you didn't compile a debug.exe, you have to do this to generate the output of dbgen first.

-Martin

	01-04-2004 22:16									#173
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No, this happened during compilation of Win32 Debug. The problem wasn't that it wasn't working, just that it thought it wasn't working when in fact it was... It's almost certainly due to MrBaggins changes, but it's still strange...

	02-04-2004 03:06									#174
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Did you happen to do a Release or Final build in between 2 Debug builds? For me, this sequence will almost always cause a failure report for each dbgen generated file.

Because no input (.cdb) files have been changed, it should not be necessary to compile anything. The object files of the the different build types are in different directories. But maybe the update of the .stamp file is causing the problem?
Stubbornly pressing F7, or doing a full build, will eventually create a correct executable.

Anyway, I don't think it is something we have changed. I had this problem with the original Activision package as well.

	02-04-2004 14:46									#175
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I can't remember for sure but I think what I did was:
Switch to Win32 - Final
Clean
Build (get errors because I don't have the stuff you get from a debug build)
Switch to Win32 - Debug
Clean
Build (get all the above-mentioned errors, but get through them by stubbornly pressing F7)
Switch to Win32 - Final
Build (Success with no problems)

Perhaps the problem is because dbgen returns a non-zero value when it finishes with no errors (a missing return 0 statement somewhere...). I'll have a look and see if I can find that out.

	03-04-2004 18:52									#176
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I've just cleaned and recompiled again, and it works fine if you don't do a (failed) Final compile before the Debug compile, so I guess that's the problem.

	18-04-2004 05:02									#177
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Edit: nm, I'm an idiot

Last edited by Locutus on 18-04-2004 at 05:09

	18-04-2004 05:09									#178
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Edit: nm, he's an idiot

	18-04-2004 17:03									#179
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Yeah, indeed, from my observations: Doing a Debug, and then a Final build is fine. If you first do a failed Final build, then you later need to do a Debug build, clean the Final build, and rebuild Final again, and you wil have to press F7 quite a number of times, till it shuts up about the error.

	16-06-2005 00:49									#180
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Bump, I made need this thread...