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C:\pokerth-0.6-vc6.0\PokerTH-0.6\debug\../src/gui/qt/gamelobbydialog/gamelobbydialogimpl.h(22) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'gamedata.h': No such file or directory

i get about 200 errors like this. gamedata.h exists, but not in the same directory as gamelobbydialogimpl.h.
the include direction is only in usual quotes (#include "bla.h" so obv the file is not found in that directory.

do i have to add every single directory of pokerth to my include-directories? would be ugly. any workaround?

i tried msvc2008 and msvc6.0, both the same.

neonew

Use qmake to generate the project files, as described in the documentation (how to build for windows). This will solve all such problems. Other ways are not supported, you are on your own there.

i did use qmake.

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qmake -tp vc -recursive

but this did not work for me (the help output came), so i tried

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qmake -project -tp vc -recursive
qmake -makefile -tp vc -recursive

that generated a visual studio project for me.

any suggestions?

Make sure QMAKESPEC is set correctly (to win32-msvc2005). Make sure *not* to use the precompiled mingw-version of Qt.

Clean up, and if the directory name is not "pokerth" you might have to add the filename of the .pro-file, i.e.

qmake -tp vc -recursive pokerth.pro

wee, the workspace looks much better now. my directory name was PokerTH-0.6

but at first run of qmake it gave this output:

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C:\pokerth-0.6-vc6.0\PokerTH-0.6>qmake -tp vc -recursive pokerth.pro
Reading C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6/pokerth_lib.pro
Reading C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6/pokerth_game.pro
Reading C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6/pokerth_server.pro
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6\pokerth_lib.dsp'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6\pokerth.dsp'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'C:/pokerth-0.6-vc6.0/PokerTH-0.6\pokerth_server.dsp'

i looked into my directory and found files named pokerth.dsp.pokerth_game, pokerth_lib.dsp.pokerth_lib and pokerth_server.dsp.pokerth_server.
i renamed them correctly, ran qmake again and then i got a working workspace.

maybe this point should be added to documentation.

i compiled all libs on my own. currently i am testing with visual c++ 6.0. is this version still supported by pokerth? because i already got some errors regarding stl.

The latest version of the "freely" available Microsoft Visual C++ is always supported, i.e. MSVC 2008 Express Edition currently (PokerTH also compiles with MSVC 2005, but this version is no longer actively used for development).

Additionally, the latest non-preview release of mingw g++ is supported.

Visual C++ 6.0 is not supported. If you have some simple patch to make it work, of course we would welcome it, but there will be no active work to support it. I know that there are several problems when using boost with Visual C++ 6.0, and quite some boost libs are not available for this compiler.

Renaming the project files is not needed if MSVC 2005/2008 is used (at least on my system). But I've updated the documentation concerning the "pokerth.pro" file. Thanks for the feedback.