Anders Eriksson - 2002-11-30

Hello!

I just wanted to share some experience. As everyone knows doesn't vUpdate 1.605 work on Windows NT 4 (I may have the exact version wrong). This means that you can't use it to upgrade to a version that works! So you need to CVS the code from here and compile it. You then will get some errors.

First you'll find that Dev-Cpp hasn't heard of any function called SHGetFolderPath. After a bit of searching I found out that you need to upgrade Win32 libraries for MingW to version 2.1. You'll find the upgrade at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw look for the w32api 2.1 files.

After this upgrade the compilation worked! But not running the program. Now th SHGetFolderPath isn't found in shell32.dll. After some more searching I found out that on NT 4 the shell isnt upgraded when you upgrade IE, so you need to use the shfolder.dll instead.

You do this by adding the libshfolder.lib library to your project.
Project - Project Options - Linker Options

in the editbox you enter: -lshfolder

recompile and now it works! I found out that some critical updates for Dev-Cpp had arrived.

Hope this will help someone!

// Anders