Visual C++ Express 2005 Beta
 

Micro$oft is currently giving this out for free. Nice editor, couldnt get eqemu to compile on first try but I'll dig into the errors now, just thought I'd share the news. If it can work, this would be even a better solution than the .net free trial.

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/expres...c/default.aspx

If you have any luck, please let me know. In my feeble attempt to compile world.exe with it, I got 1187 errors... :(

Turns out this version is missing a ton of libraries, even the windows API. Im not sure what its good for...

Try reading this link

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/expres...k/default.aspx

Yes, read that, installed it all, still got lots of missing files errors. All related to the core sdk.

Well I can't build eqemu on my laptop as it doesn't have mysql on it but I can build my direct3d zone viewer which uses the windows API a reasonable amount in one of it's DLLs without getting any probems.

Did you sucessfully follow stage 3 of that we page? Perhaps modifiying the paths if you installed the platform SDK into a different directory.... Did the modifications to the path "stick" when you saved them?