What is needed to build UltraVNC from source?

[bz922x]

Devs,

I would like to make a small change to UltraVNC's winvnc (to remove superfluous scroll bars in the Java viewer [post=64331][/post] ).

I don't like to make others verify my proposed changes, I like to run my own unit tests before asking for a review, so I have checked out the head version from SVN and tried to compile. I am getting enough problems that I think I must be missing something fundamental about how to compile this thing.

I have tried using MS VC++ 2005 Express, MS VC++ 2008 Express and have loaded a variety of versions of Windows SDKs, but no combination that I have tried has let me successfully compile (None of the SDKs I tried had atlbase.h in the include directories).

Therefore my questions:
What compiler was used to build the download binaries?
What SDK was used for headers and libraries?
Is there a brief walkthrough of the build process available? (It is obviously complex as the java viewer must be compiled to a .jar and copied to the resource directory. I imagine that there are other compile and copy steps in the process.)

Thanks.

[Rudi De Vos]

We use the MS vc++ 2008 ( Visual studio)
We didn't install any SDK's, but the SDK are auto downloaded
by Visual studio.

Java is embedded as a resource, so in theory for testing a new java
viewer you could also change the resource with some kind of resource
hacker.

ATL support

Via google i found
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Visual C++ 9 (VS2008) Express
Download and install the Windows 7 SDK.
EITHER
Download and install the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK as well, OR
Disable code that uses ATL -- see atlbase.h.
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[bz922x]

Rudi,

Thank you. Microsoft makes it very hard to find and install the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK. The atlthunk workaround from [topic=7464][/topic] was necessary. I also had to add gdi32.lib, user32.lib, and shell32.lib to the winvnc project's Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies in VC++ 2005 Express to get winvnc to build.

I have now tested my proposed change and will post it to the Java Viewer thread (where I started [topic=14561][/topic]) so that it may be considered for committing.

Thanks,
Tom Goodman