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8BitArchitect

Chieftain

Sep 30, 2020

#41

Thanks Nightingale. It will probably be a while before I really pick up modding Civ4Col beyond some personal tweaks (though if I ever do anything useful or interesting I'll be sure to post it.) mostly because I have a bunch of small projects I'd like to do in Civ IV BTS and mostly large projects I'd like to do in Civ4Col (which is a testament to the quality of work put out by your team and their predecessors; WTP has just about every feature I'd want included in a Civ game focused on colonizing the New World, and it performs rather well aside from one or two issues.) and I'd like to make some measurable progress before I have to put modding aside due to work, life, or lack of motivation getting in the way.

That said, I had definitely intended to use the WTP .dll as a base whenever I got started modding Civ4Col in earnest.

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#42

I did all of this but I don't understand where will my dll file appear?

Nightinggale

Deity

Oct 15, 2020

#43

Louis the XIV said:
I did all of this but I don't understand where will my dll file appear?

The makefile has a line near the top

PHP:

YOURMOD=..

If this path points to the root of your mod, then the dll file will end up inside assets. That is assuming it didn't fail to compile.

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#44

I have done that in the first step but now I'm in the last step and nothing happens! Only a CvGameCoreDLL file appears but it's not dll, it's Visual Studio Project.

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#45

It says rebuild all failed:
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Nightinggale

Deity

Oct 15, 2020

#46

Louis the XIV said:
It says rebuild all failed:
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

The error is the first error line, not the last. You should scroll up and find the first or alternatively copy paste all the lines from your failed build attempt. Your quoted text tells that it failed, but not why, hence no clue to how to fix it.

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#47

Here is the full code thought I doubt it will tell you anything important, I think the problem was that I wrote something wrong in the MakeFile or I pressed some wrong buttons.
It doesn't let me send messages with more then 150000 letters so I will have to post it in 3 replies.
Maybe you can explain to me the in between 3 and 4 step in more detail?

Spoiler Code :

Last edited: Oct 15, 2020

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#48

Spoiler Code2 :

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#49

Spoiler Code3 :

Nightinggale

Deity

Oct 15, 2020

#50

Louis the XIV said:
1> Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results

That's your problem. You aren't using the 2003 compiler. As much as we would like to use a modern compiler, we are stuck using the same compiler as the one used for compiling the exe (memory allocation related issues if we mix).

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 15, 2020

#51

In the Civ4SDK folder in Program Files (*86) there is another folder called Microsoft Studio C++ Toolkiit 2003 so I think I am using the 2003 version.
I feel as if there is a step missing in between 3 and 4, also I haven't understood step 3 that well. So could you please tell me in more detail what do I have to do after I have everything I need.

raystuttgart

Civ4Col Modder

Oct 17, 2020

#52

@Louis the XIV
Please post your makefile. :thumbsup:

(It will be easier to discuss than just the errors you get.)

For comparison I posted my makefile for WTP.
(The makefile it self was created by @Nightinggale however - and is probably a bit more complex than a very simple one for a project with less build variants.)

By the way:
The Toolkit alone is not enough.
You also need the Windows SDK.

For me it looks like this:
TOOLKIT=$(PROGRAMFILES)\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
PSDK=$(PROGRAMFILES)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A

Last edited: Oct 17, 2020

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 17, 2020

#53

Ok I'll post my makefile here.

raystuttgart

Civ4Col Modder

Oct 17, 2020

#54

I think this line is your problem:
CIV4_PATH=$(PROGRAMFILES)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword\Mods\RFC 600AD\

Please try this instead:
CIV4_PATH=$(PROGRAMFILES)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\CvGameCoreDLL

The Boost and Python libs are installed in the CvGameCoreDLL directory of the Root Directory of the game.
(At least that is the way it is done in Civ4Col.)

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 17, 2020

#55

That makes sense but I have all the Boost and python libs already in the CvGameCoreDLL folder as well as all the other C++ and H files. The CvGameCoreDLL file is in the mod directory RFC 600 AD.

raystuttgart

Civ4Col Modder

Oct 17, 2020

#56

Louis the XIV said:
The CvGameCoreDLL file

I am not talking about a file here, I am talking about a directory.
The DLL file of the mod does not matter here in that line, as long as the path to the libs (Boost and Python lib directories) is correct.

But If I understand you correctly you have copied the libs to the mod directory as well. (Or the mod creator had put them in there.)
If not you need to use the "CvGameCoreDLL folder" of the base game. (Becaus the lib folders are in there.)

For comparison see my path here:
CIV4_PATH=C:\games\Colonization\CvGameCoreDLL

Last edited: Oct 17, 2020

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 17, 2020

#57

I already copied the libs and boost and everything else. I'm using the CvGameCoreDLL file from RFC except that I added the Boost and python libs.
I'll try changing the path as you said but it will take a few minutes to compile the dll.

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 17, 2020

#58

Also is this path important?
YOURMOD=$(PROGRAMFILES)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword\Mods\RFC 600AD\CvGameCoreDLL

Louis the XIV

Sun King

Oct 17, 2020

#59

When I open the Visual Studio project file it gives me this error:
The source control provider associated with this solution could not be found. The projects will be treated as not under source control. Do you wish to permanently remove the source control bindings from the projects?
And also these are the options:
Yes, No, Help

EDIT: So I managed to compile the dll and it says finished but no dll file appears anywhere.

raystuttgart

Civ4Col Modder

Oct 17, 2020

#60

Louis the XIV said:
When I open the Visual Studio project file it gives me this error:
The source control provider associated with this solution could not be found. The projects will be treated as not under source control. Do you wish to permanently remove the source control bindings from the projects?
And also these are the options:
Yes, No, Help

That I do not know, it is maybe specific to the way @Leoreth does it.
(Seems that he directly links to GIT to commit his code changes.)

I do not do it that way. :dunno:

I upload all my changes manually controlled and selectively to our GIT.

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