The Powder Toy

risks of editing uncompiled files?

  • HeyJD     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @plead-for-destruction
    Well, If you didn't edit anything and tried to compile and it didn't work, Then there's something wrong with your compiler.
    But if you did edit something, I'll explain.
    The source code is where it tells everything it does in powder toy.
    If you edit something which it doesn't understand, errors will occur.
    So the risks of editing and compiling, Is a lot if you don't know what your doing. But the only risks are errors, though. Nothing bad will happen to your PC.


    EDIT: four posts late >_>

    The wiki said that to teach you how to compile. Not to tell you do that straight away.
  • plead-for-destruction     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @HeyJD
    0_o ok
  • PizzaPlatypus     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    try and compile unedited first, then, if it works, you can start editing.
  • plead-for-destruction     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @PizzaPlatypus
    i cant compile it theres an error:

    \FacialTurd-The-Powder-Toy-b3735bb\includes\graphics.h|3|fatal error: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory|
    ||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|
  • Xenocide     17th Jan 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    You don't have SDL installed or linked.

    While the wiki does say to compile first, that's just to make sure you have everything set up properly.
  • plead-for-destruction     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @antb
    how do i link it i cant find it with explorer

    or search

    or all programs
  • MiXih     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    write the quotation marks byself, wiki changes " to ” (copy this post to notepad to see diffirence)
  • plead-for-destruction     17th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    ... what do you mean?

    here is what i found when i searched SDL

    SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32.tar.gz
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