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On 09/01/2003 at 00:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm in the same situation.
In addition to finding good tutorials i have a very essential problem starting with c++ sdk.
When i try to compile the sdk I get a lot of warnings and errors like this:
c:\Maxon\CINEMA_4D_R8\Resource\_api\c4d.h warning C4067: unexpected tokens following preprocessor directive - expected a newline
c:\Maxon\CINEMA_4D_R8\Resource\_api\c4d.h(2) : fatal error C1070: mismatched #if/#endif pair in file 'c:\maxon\cinema_4d_r8\resource\_api\c4d.h'

3D Designer tried to help me in a privat chat, but we did'nt find a solution. He was directly able to build the solution with my files.

Here are the steps I did so far:
Open C:\Maxon\CINEMA_4D_R8\Plugins\cinema4dsdk\cinema4dsdk.dsw
drag C:\Maxon\CINEMA_4D_R8\Resource\_api_lib\_api_v8.dsp into MSDEV
Set dependency to: cinema4dsdk depends on _api_v8
Set active project to cinema4dsdk
Open Main.cpp
Compile Main.cpp
Is there something additional that must be configured?

I tried to compile on several PCs (im in the lucky possition to have a company's testinvironment) with different Windows versions, VC6 and VC.net.
- No change -
I must have something overseen.
Please help me to get a start on c++ plugin development.
many thx,
Sneaker

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On 09/01/2003 at 02:02, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Sneaker,
I don't have my notes with me, but I had the same problems trying to build the Windows SDK under VC6, and I did manage to get them fixed in the end. I'll have a look at my notes tonight to see what I had to do, and let you know.

One thing that I remember is that the project is set to use the intel compiler by default. If you haven't got this then you get lots of complaints about unrecognised flags, etc.

Removing this fixes _some_ of the problems...

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On 09/01/2003 at 02:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello everyone....
I'm a new student of C++, Visual Studio 6, and the Cinema SDK... I've been attempting to get the default SDK to compile for the last three days...and have been getting the same type of errors as the previous posts'.... I believe that it is just a problem with my settings within visual studio but i haven't been able to pinpoint what I'm overlooking...
It would be greatly appreciatied by all of us "Inexperienced Newbies" if someone could post quick step by step instructions to set up our visual studio project - I personally would like to compare what I'm learning in my C++ studies against the code in the SDK -
Again, many thanks for your help...
jbear

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On 09/01/2003 at 12:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok, I've dug out my notes, this is what I had to do to get the SDK examples to compile using VC6.

If you haven't got the Intel compiler, then in
'(C4DR8)\Plugins\cinema4dsdk\cinema4dsdk.dsw'
and in '(C4DR8)\Resource\_api_lib\_api_v8.dsw'
you need to do this:
Build -> Set active config to debug or release (Not intel - which is the default).

To get rid of the
'fatal error C1070: mismatched #if/#endif pair'
errors, I did the following. There's probably an easier way (like some compile switch I missed - I'm not familiar with VC), but this is what I did.

For EVERY '*.h' AND '*.cpp' file in '_api', and
for EVERY '*.h' file in 'res/description', and
'modules/objects/res/description',
and ALL THEIR SUBDIRECTORIES, open each file in PFE (Programmers File Editor - others might work), add a line, delete it, then resave. This fixes the files somehow, not sure what exactly the problem is.

I noticed that some files (e.g. 'c4d.h'), have a spurious control character before the first line of code, and VC6++ seems to be sufficiently crap that it can't cope with it).
(Note: Can load and save en-masse in PFE with drag and drop and save all. This will stop you going insane whilst doing this).

There's got to be an easier way, but this is what I did and it worked.

Cheers - Steve

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On 09/01/2003 at 12:29, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Steve,
thanks for your support. Just yet I found the "USE_INTEL" Option. I had set the active config to Win32Release directly and couldn't remember where I saw the USE_Intel crap. ;o)
Wow seems to be a lot of work, to edit all the files. I'll try and inform if this works.
thx,
Sneaker

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On 09/01/2003 at 13:26, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I started out just editing the files that it complained about, but there were so many, that in the end I just decided to do the lot. It did take a while...

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On 09/01/2003 at 13:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Right, after openenig and saving all these docs in  -wordpad- everything works.
That leaves the question: "what the hell put Maxon on the CD"?  - "Mac stuff"?
many thanks to Steve,
Sneaker

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On 09/01/2003 at 13:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you Steve, after an entire day of digging, and digging in Visual Studio, a simple edit and save did it all...
I owe you one Steve....
--what was the deal though???....;)
 
pixolinx

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On 09/01/2003 at 14:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

--- worked for me too ---
thanks,
any ideas of why that was the solution ???
what OS/Development package was the sdk created in ?
thanks again,

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On 10/01/2003 at 12:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

the problem is, that all cpp and h files from the c4d api have line endings with "0x0d" only, and not "0x0d 0x0a" as usual.
metrowerks codewarrior does not complain about that and just take it as it is, but visual studio does. and since it is impossible to get a plug in compiled with mwerks cw running we are forced to use visual studio.
there are about 400 files (as far as i remember) in all subdirectories and so on... i've written a small utility that rewrites all the source files in the cinema 4d directory with proper line endings.
if anyone is interested in this, just drop me a message.

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On 11/01/2003 at 06:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Was this the EarlyBird CD or the real release? (I don't have either, but it would be interesting to know.) I haven't encountered this issue myself; all API files have had proper Windows linefeeds. My intuition tells me that an automatic translation by some file compression tool might be involved... (Perhaps during the CD authoring if it doesn't ring any bells to you.)

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On 11/01/2003 at 12:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I use  8.012

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On 13/01/2003 at 12:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I downloaded the SDK from Plugin Cafe, I didn't realise it was on the CDs.

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On 13/01/2003 at 13:42, xxxxxxxx wrote:

the sdk is not on the cd and is not the problem, but the api is.
Sneaker

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On 14/01/2003 at 01:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Sorry, yes - you are correct, I wasn't thinking straight...