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I don't know enough about those Windows libraries to say whether this is a good idea.

If we made these changes it would have to:

• Work on all other Windows compilers (MinGW / gcc especially)
• Be Free/Libre (I'm not in favor of linking a proprietary library)

As for Point, we can add a default constructor to Point (even as a struct).

I'm not familiar with that "vector iterators are incompatible" issue, I'll have to read up on it.

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If we made these changes it would have to:

Work on all other Windows compilers (MinGW / gcc especially)

The source change (apart from the constructors in the Point struct and changes to the construction in the code) are all inside a #ifndef and # else block, so the other build systems would not be affected.

Be Free/Libre (I'm not in favor of linking a proprietary library)

You don't need to add any libraries if you have Visual Studio working with SDL and the other prerequisites - so setting up on there is no different to setting up in mingw or cmake for example.

As for Point, we can add a default constructor to Point (even as a struct).

I wasn't sure if having a constructor in the struct would be possible in some of the other windows compilers.

I'm not familiar with that "vector iterators are incompatible" issue, I'll have to read up on it.

I found this page quite helpful, because I did not understand how the program would run in release mode and not in debug mode:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa985982(v=vs.80).aspx

I stepped back through the stack and found it occurred when the code looped over the events (from the current zone?) when I tried to enter an unknown zone. Obviously I don't yet understand what is going on there, so I think to repair that someone would have to recreate the same problem - I am using MSVC 2010 express edition.

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Flare compiles under MSVC2010 without any problems. You should get dirent.h from here http://softagalleria.net/dirent.php and put it into ...Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\ folder.

@clintbellanger I guess you should add this note to README to avoid such questions in future, though getting dirent.h for MSVC is one of the basic things. that programmer should do to compile crossplatform project.

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Thanks I didn't know about dirent for MSVC. I think the compile will still fail unless the other modifications occur (complains about variables being used without being initialized) and there is also the STL incompatible assert bug, although these could be separate bugs / issues perhaps.

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