Game Programming in C++ Start to Finish


Installing CEGUI

There are a few step for installing the Crazy Eddie's GUI SDK for use in your games. There are many different installation binaries, but they are just pre-packaged depending upon which compiler you are intending to use for game development.

The specific instructions are noted below:


Visual Studio 6.0

We just need to lay down the basic SDK, followed by the dependent projects:

  1. Run the SDK installer if you are intending to use the STL libraries from the latest Platform SDK. If you are intending to use the STLPort libraries then you should run this SDK installer.
  2. Unzip the Common dependencies folder to the location you installed the SDK
  3. Unzip the Xerces for C++ folder to the location you installed the SDK

Visual Studio .NET 2003

We just need to lay down the basic SDK, followed by the dependent projects:

  1. Run the SDK installer
  2. Unzip the Common dependencies folder to the location you installed the SDK
  3. Unzip the Xerces for C++ folder to the location you installed the SDK

Visual Studio .NET 2005

We just need to lay down the basic SDK, followed by the dependent projects:

  1. Run the SDK installer
  2. Unzip the Common dependencies folder to the location you installed the SDK
  3. Unzip the Xerces for C++ folder to the location you installed the SDK