Im beginning to think that it is my computer/version of MS VC++6. I installed it with a friend's cd and didnt install any of the other options such as the MSDN library, which i think may be causing the problem. I didnt install them b/c I didnt think I would be doing anything with C++ anytime soon that would use any of those lib files, but I guess that is what is causing the problem. I tried to build from the source files from
www.eqemu.org, tried the world and login server source, neither complied, as well as a couple of the other progams listed there, just to see if it was VC++ or the emu source.. not sure where to go from here since my friend lives in flordia now and I cant exactly get the CD back =P below is exact post from one of the complie attempts from one of the programs on the eqemu.org list...
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--------------------Configuration: ItemEditor - Win32 Debug--------------------
Linking...
nafxcwd.lib(thrdcore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __endthreadex
nafxcwd.lib(thrdcore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __beginthreadex
libcd.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
Debug/ItemEditor.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.
ItemEditor.exe - 4 error(s), 0 warning(s)