... um... okay. I couldn't stop myself from laughing onto the floor at that. But... wow |-3

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I forgot to mention, importing Dev-C++ projects wasn't working very well. The project settings were screwed up to the point that no matter what I did to correct them after an import, I still couldn't compile, I would get strange errors.

BUT, when I created an empty project, then manually imported all my project files and manually set up all the options by hand, they compiled up fine. If I need to go through that much work, I may as well have Dev-C++ back on and load up the actual projects. It may be an old IDE but it works for me, I have never had a problem with it. I also installed the old MinGW to go with it. But keep in mind, this is ONLY so I can load in older projects (I have quite a few, my programming interest vary quite a bit! ) and compile them without having to spend a full day reconfiguring, manually setting up a new project and recoding all of them for a new compiler. I will probably pick a select few projects and port them, but if I do, it will be to MSVC10 which I also have installed and Allegro 5. But I want my old IDE and MinG installed so I can screw around for the time being without the hassles.

Oh, one other hassle, which probably could have been corrected somehow, though I couldn't find a way, was CodeBlocks, when ever I went to add a new library, it would take me to the last project folder I worked on instead of the MinGW/lib folder... then you spend a minute navigating around Windows to find the MinGW/lib folder, this gets very annoying. Like I said, lots of little things all add up and I got fed up.

Note, most of the problems I had were dealing with compiling libraries that were used in some of those projects, not stuff I actually coded (which makes recoding them even worse, I can read my own code, but someone elses?!). And the makefiles that went with them. NOT my own code. Just the odd thing like the "const char *" issues where I needed to change that in a few places, little things. It just all adds up to a huge annoyance. When you correct your own code and it sill won't compile, and hours later you realize it was due to someone else's library/makefile which I absolutely don't feel like reprogramming their code and spending another day when I could just put on the older IDE/compiler... well... you get the picture. (actually, you probably don't, I have repeated myself too many times and wish there was a "delete thread" button).