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[cassius]

Sorry to be so persistant but I am getting desperate.

I start a new blank project  in vs 2017 and add nothing of my own.It gives error message " cannot open source file ctype.h".

This of course is followed by many more errors.

This is a NEW project and surely should work out of the box?

I tried googling for answer but answers were dated.

target is set to 10.015063.0 but retarget shows another number.,, other than that I see nothing wrong.

[gamecreator]

I just did the upgrade.  This is what worked for me - you may not need to do some of this.

1. Create new project.  Double click on SLN file in Project, Windows to open.
2. Changed to Release.
3. Removed App.h and main.cpp from project.
4. Replaced the code in App.cpp with an example that doesn't use any resources, like the one on this page: https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=API-Reference_Object_Window_Create
5. When I tried to compile it, it gave me some error about missing Windows 10 SDK (since I didn't install it).  I right-clicked on Solution in the Solution Explorer, hit Retarget Solution, chose 8.1 and hit OK.
6. This compiled for me but I got a blank window because the Working Directory was incorrect.  Right-clicked on the Project Property, went to Debugging and changed my Working Directory to $(SolutionDir)..\..\   (which matches my Output Directory under General).

Ran fine after this.  Good luck!

[cassius]

thanks I will give it a try.

[cassius]

I am now getting the error windows sdk 10.15063.0 not found..its asking me to retarget. Any further help appreciated.

[Josh]

You might need to update VS to get the very latest?

[reepblue]

No, he needs to do this:

Use the dropdown to select the version that's installed.

[cassius]

I reinstalled vs 2017 yesterday. makes no difference so far. Still trying, thanks for help.

[cassius]

I've now got it  to build ok, thanks for your help.

However, I'm now getting the following error.

Lua Sandbox is ticked in options.

The correct path to the Lua scripts is as below but I'm not sure why it's looking in the wrong place.

 "C:\Users\G\Documents\Leadwerks\Projects\newproject\Scripts"

Can you help, thanks.

Run time error below-

Error: No debugger hostname supplied in command line.

Initializing Lua...
Warning: Lua sandboxing disabled.
Executing file "C:/Users/G/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/Scripts/Error.lua"
Error: Failed to read file "C:/Users/G/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/Scripts/Error.lua".
Executing file "C:/Users/G/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/Scripts/Main.lua"
Error: Failed to read file "C:/Users/G/Documents/Leadwerks/Projects/Scripts/Main.lua".
Error: Failed to execute script "Scripts/Main.lua".
Press any key to continue . . .

[Roland]

Check your Debugger path

[cassius]

Can someone tell me

 

Does the working directory path have to match the output directory??

[gamecreator]

No.  The output directory is where it puts the EXE.  The working directory is where it should find the DLLs and such.  It's convenient to have them the same if you want to run the EXE outside of Visual Studio.

[Josh]

5 hours ago, cassius said:

Can someone tell me

 

Does the working directory path have to match the output directory??

It should.

[cassius]

Thanks everyone. Got it working now. Had to change working dir path and retarget  project.