Compiling with Microsoft Visual Studio Express

Since most people have not Microsoft Developer Studio becouse it's quite expensive, lucky Microsoft brought a freeware version off it called Microsoft Visual Studio Express.

It has not got a resource editor, but it's good enough to compile the Kingpin SDK.

These tutorials should work for the following versions:

The following should work but have not really tested them, or maybe need some small adjustments:

It also should work with the Microsoft Developer Studio versions.

First, we must create the project in which we are going to work:

Start Visual C++ Express Edition
Close any open Workspaces
Choose from the menu File->New-Project
From the New Project dialog choose Win32->Win32 Project
Click in the Project name entry and type a name for your project
Check the Location and make sure it's correct and press OK
A Win32 Application Wizard dialog will start, click on Next.
Now you got options to select, choose from Application type; DLL and from Additional options; Empty project and click on Finish.

Now that we have our project and workspace, we need to add id's Kingpin SDK source files to the project.

Create a new folder in your project directory called "Source"
Copy the Kingpin source files to this directory
Under the menu Project->Add Exiting Item..
Change to the source directory you just created
Under Files of type choose All Files (*.*) make sure it's all files otherwise GAME.DEF will be missing (Without GAME.DEF it will compile and no error but the gamex86.dll won't work)
Select all of the files that appear in the window and click OK

There still some things missing from the compiler the Kingpin SDK. Kingpin needs NavLib.lib otherwise it won't compile.

menu Project->projectname Properties or ALT+F7
Configuration Manager... button -> Put configuration on Release and click Close
Still in Properties Pages, Configuration Properties->Linker->Input
Then change the Additional Dependencies to Navlib\NavLib.lib or ..\Navlib\NavLib.lib the location where Navlib is.
Add Ignore Specific Library: LIBC.lib
Add Module Definition File: ../GAME.DEF or location where GAME.DEF is
and click OK