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Packaging your game

Started by MattCarpenter Oct 4, 2002 at 11:13 PM 4 replies 250+ views

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Oct 4, 2002 at 11:13 PM

I made a simple direct3D 8.1 flight simulator in visual c++. I compiled it, and put it in a zip archive. It contained 3 files, flightsim.exe, grass.bmp, and the terrain mesh, terrain.x I sent this zip to two friends, but they got Illegal operation errors in windows XP when they tried to run this. Is there any other files I have to include to make this work on their computers? (like any dlls?)

TravisWells

Oct 6, 2002 at 11:52 PM

Did you compile in release mode?
Debug mode uses a different runtime, they probably won''t have the debug runtime.

TechWins

Oct 7, 2002 at 12:38 AM

Do they have the DirectX 8.1 installed on their computers?

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MattCarpenter

Oct 7, 2002 at 3:13 AM

Ah
Release Mode
Yeah, I guess it was in debug
Thanks

Dean Harding

Oct 7, 2002 at 5:57 AM

You''d get missing DLL errors if it was in Debug mode (or they didn''t have the right DirectX installed), not illegal operations.

Are you running Windows XP? It might be less forgiving when it comes to memory access and things like that than other versions of Windows (95/98/ME in particular)

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