What is this? I can't compile one single engine in Dev C++. I can't do a darn thing with it. I've spent the past month trying to figure out what is going on here. Ok, I downloaded the Quake 2 full source code from ID Software's website. I decompressed the folder (the only thing I successfully completed). Now, I used Dev's "special" feature, importing Visual C++ files. Why don't I just download the Beta version of Visual C++ and solve my problems that way? Beacause Billy-boy Gates didn't use his head. The worthless program works for any OS than ME. It just so happens my PC will only use ME. Well, I import the Quake 2 source (*.dsp file), and then it says that it's missing file bspfile.h. Now, I'm sure this isn't what caused the problem, because I tried to compile other engines that didn't have files missing, and they have the same problem. I click compile, but as it so happens, nothing in life is that easy. No, of course not. Instead, the compiler has to come up with at least 500 "parse errors" and other stuff. What am I doing wrong? I can't use any other compiler because no other one works. Dev C++ is the only one that actually opens when I click on it. It just can't compile anything above a simple "Hello World!" app. This is one of those things that I'm going to spend years trying to figure out, until finally, I find out it was something so incredibly simple that I just want to kick myself again and again. Can any one at all here take me through a step by step process in compiling this engine? I mean, from beginning to the very end, telling me every detail as if I were an idiot. I want to know what I'm doing wrong here. I just simply want to get started in this stuff, and I'm sick of using worthless demo apps just because I don't have the money for a full Torque engine, which I probably wouldn't even be able to compile anyway.

Yet they supported 95, which is one of the oldest operating systems. It doesn't make any sense. They listed EVERY Microsoft OS except for ME.

Thanks anyways. I'm afraid there's no way to fix this problem. I just don't know what to do aside from beating myself senseless with my own C++ book.

My PC can't hand XP. It's barely holding together right now.

But, yeah. I guess I'll have to spend some sleepless nights looking over this code. I just hope it's worth it.