Re: building EU version 3.1.1
- Posted by BRyan Jul 03, 2014
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Do the original binaries work fine on your system?
In theory, if you use an newer version of a compiler it should work okay with the old source code on a brand new computer. In practice, if the compiler has not changed, Windows has. Code that runs on the stack, for example, may not work if the no-execute bit is set on memory. They are shipping with DEP on by default now, aren't they? That issues shouldn't affect winwire though. Do the generic .ex demos work?
If you download e31setup.exe from the RDS Web site ALL the binaries in that package WORK.
The problem is that you can not generate a working EXW.EXE from the source
using the makefile.wat or build.bat or borexw.bat without creating a BAD EXW.EXE file.
The EX.EXE builds fine and works fine.
The easiest way to see the problem is to download e31setup.exe and try to do it.
I think the 3.1.1 binaries were not created using the batch files or make files
that are in the download.
The e