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As I figure out the whole wiki making thing, I'm going to write things temporarily on my page.

I'm going to write some notes on compiling fs2_open for Windows with Visual Studio 2003. Hopefully this will be useful for other people with similar problems, or those who always wanted to try but couldn't figure it out.

It's less complicated than it sounds once you've got everything together :-P

Yeah, I know, this version is not so widely used. Well I don't have 2005 yet. Some of my problems were because 2003 isn't used by anyone else (or updated).

At this point, almost all of the needed libraries and stuff are included in the CVS checkout. This is convenient for us Windows users (but a bit silly for everyone else). All you need is the Platform SDK, and even that I'm not sure you need all of any more.

Once you download the CVS (pending article), open the projects folder. There you'll find a MSVC_2003 folder, which has a lot of what we need, but the project hasn't been updated in some time. I'm hoping to get this fixed.

Open the solution.

For now, the solution is to copy the project files from another project folder, such as MSVC_7.