August 10th, 2010, 08:21 AM
Yea the boot part is just a boot loader that lets you enter a password and it runs before windows so yes, it's a DOS program. How do i use escape sequence if i may ask.
August 10th, 2010, 07:24 AM
I'll try doing it in 1.52 IDE but i will probably have to give up :( This is a bit over my head. I didn't realise it would be so difficult just to output some color.
August 9th, 2010, 02:31 AM
i've no doubt it would be easy to compile in the c 1.52 IDE but that doesn't help in this case.
August 8th, 2010, 10:34 AM
The open source program i am compiling/editing is done in visual studio 2008. When i hit build solution in 2008 it is using vc ++ 1.52 to compile some of it and linking it all together. At no point...
August 8th, 2010, 09:22 AM
in vs2008 i did project, add existing item... found the graphics.lib added it to project.... but still get same unresolved external error.
August 8th, 2010, 07:36 AM
I just meant that vc+1.52 was doing the linking, i know that link.exe is not a compiler. I know my sentence didn't make any sense but i am a noob lol. So how do i add graphics.lib to the makefile? My...
August 7th, 2010, 11:28 PM
bare in mind i am using visual studio 2008 to compile but it is linked to ms v++ 1.52.
August 7th, 2010, 10:31 PM
Nice find for graph.h....
After look at it i tried it like this... but I get this error:
1>Linking...
1>BootMain.obj(..\bootmain.cpp) : error L2029: '__outtext' : unresolved external...
August 6th, 2010, 02:04 AM
hey,
I am playing around with an open source program called TrueCrypt. I want to add some color to the boot loader which is actually compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 so its a 16 bit...