Issues with getting 2012 UAlbertaBot Compiling

If you only installed VS 2008 redistributable, you may still get errors saying that it cannot find the v90 (vs 2008) compiler. Solution: Download VS 2008 Express (the ide) and somehow it works after this.

So you may get this error at some point:

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:\Users\dustin\Desktop\CurrentProjects\Sparcraft\external_binaries\lib/ftgl_static_MT.lib'

Download them here: https://code.google.com/p/ualbertabot/source/browse/trunk/external_binaries/lib?r=140

FORGET ALL THIS STUFF BELOW

In which case you need to download the ftgl code from here in order to build your own ftgl_static-MT.lib file:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftgl/

Now when you compile ftgl, you may get an error such as this:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory

To fix this, download ftgl236 from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.3.6/

Then add it freetype236 to your system path (additional tutorial here:

variable name: FREETYPE variable path (may be different for you): C:\libraries\freetype-2.3.6

Note: You may need to close and reopen visual studio after you change the path variable