Quake 2 Compile Errors

I downloaded the Quake II source, figured I'd run a test compile. I got hundreds of warnings, and about 10 errors. MS Visual C++ 6.0. Anybody else have this problem? Another thing is documentation. There's so many files, I don't know what does what. Is there any documentation (official or non-official) on how to develop games with it?

Um, do you have all the data-files?

I assume so, but maybe not. Where can I find the full source? The id technology downloads site is all dead links...

i think youll find the source is available but yu are missing some important data files that actually are a main part of the application. I dont think there is a 100% source code release unless you poke around some of the dodgy warez sites that would normally be in your 'restricted' zone

A lack of resources won't prevent the source code from compiling. What errors are you getting?

I open quake2.dsw and there are 5 projects. I batch build and get the following warnings and an error:

The following warning appears over 400 times with things like 'dist', 'inflictor', 'attacker', 'kick', 'plane', etc:
C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\ctf\g_ai.c(771) : warning C4100: 'dist' : unreferenced formal parameter

Tons of these:
C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\ctf\g_combat.c(249) : warning C4701: local variable 'index' may be used without having been initialized

Dozens of these:
C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\win32\conproc.c(305) : warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'int ' to 'unsigned short ', possible loss of data

Some generic warnings scattered throughout the log:
C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\ctf\g_ai.c(61) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant

C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\ctf\g_combat.c(239) : warning C4702: unreachable code

C:\Tools\VC98\INCLUDE\rpcasync.h(45) : warning C4115: '_RPC_ASYNC_STATE' : named type definition in parentheses

C:\Downloads\Quake 2 Source\quake2-3.21\ref_gl\gl_image.c(1457) : warning C4057: 'function' : 'const unsigned int *' differs in indirection to slightly different base types from 'int *'

And the lone error, everything else is just warnings:
Performing Custom Build Step on .\r_varsa.asm
'ml' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

>And the lone error, everything else is just warnings:
Performing Custom Build Step on .\r_varsa.asm
'ml' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I think you need MASM installed in your bin directory. You may need to download the processor pack if it's not already installed, or get hold of MASM from somewhere else.

99% of the messages have nothing to do with ASM, why would there be that many warnings?

Change the warning level in project->settings to a different value and recompile.

I couldn't find the GUI switch so if you can't find it either then open up the link tab and add:

/WARN[level]

to the box that lists the libs, where 'level' is 0,1,2,3 - The greater the numeral used, the more warnings generated.

Hope that helps.

#pragma warning(disable: warningnumberhere) // disable the warning


#pragma warning(default: warningnumberhere) // renable it