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Setup developing environment

Instructions for creating the Microsoft Visual Studio (2008-2013) project

• (1) File/New Project -> Templates/Visual C++ -> Empty Project. Create the project directly in the repository.

• (2) Copy those project properties "tel quel". Right click on the project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties (make sure Configuration is set to "All configurations" and not "Debug"

  • Debugging/Environment
    PATH=$(ProjectDir)\lib\allegro-5.0.10-msvc-11.0\bin;%PATH%
  • VC++ Directories/Include Directories
    $(ProjectDir)\lib;$(ProjectDir)\lib\allegro-5.0.10-msvc-11.0\include;$(IncludePath)
  • VC++ Directories/Libraries Directories
    $(ProjectDir)\lib\allegro-5.0.10-msvc-11.0\lib;$(LibraryPath)
  • C/C++/General/Additional Include Directories
    $(ProjectDir)\lib;$(ProjectDir)\lib\allegro-5.0.10-msvc-11.0\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)
  • Linker/General/Additional Library Directories
    $(ProjectDir)\lib\allegro-5.0.10-msvc-11.0\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)
  • Linker/Input/Additional Dependence
    FOR "Debug" configuration: add allegro-5.0.10-monolith-md-debug.lib; FOR "Release" configuration add allegro-5.0.10-monolith-md.lib;

Development tools

Logging

Use the following functions to log messages to console:

• LOG(LEVEL)
• LOG_IF(COND, LEVEL)
• LOG_EVERY_N(N, LEVEL)
• CHECK(COND)

Replace LEVEL by: TRACE, DEBUG, INFO or WARNING.

Ex.: LOG(INFO) << "Information";

*** Do not log "FATAL" level messages. Instead, use this: FatalErrorDialog("Something important failed."); Or this: std::stringstream ss; ss << "Over " << 9000 << " nuggets"; FatalErrorDialog(ss.str());

Max line length

The maximum length of lines of code is 80. Install this plugin to be able to add a guideline: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/da227a0b-0e31-4a11-8f6b-3a149cf2e459