Microsoft visual studio

[AJ]

Hi there guys, my project partner and myself stumbled accross this software whilst doing research for our dissertation project and both are very set in the ways of using microsoft visual studio and have never had any experience using the borland software. My question is :

why are the project files unable to be compiled in the micorsoft environment?? and is there any way of doing so??

if not is there a port being written for visual studio??

thanks for you help in advance

AJ

[gschalk]

AJ,

why are the project files unable to be compiled in the micorsoft environment?? and is there any way of doing so??

Because they use graphical libraries (e.g., the VCL) specific to the Borland compiler. While I believe there are ways to compile the VCL, which you would have to include in the Visual Studio project, in Visual Studio, I do not think any BCI2000 user has done it. At best, it would be a lot of headache.

if not is there a port being written for visual studio??

BCI2000 v3.0 will support Linux and OS X, and any standard compiler. However, this will not be ready until the end of next year.

If you are mainly interested in writing your own application module, you may want to check out the MFCDemo Application that compiles with VisualStudio.

Otherwise, I encourage you to try out the Borland Compiler. The new Borland C++ Builder 2007 is very nice, and BCI2000 is fully compatible with it.

Gerv