Windows + VS2022 compilation errors (missing includes, linking, incomplete types)

[lu-si-ye]

Environment:

• Windows 11
• Visual Studio 2022 (17.14)
• CMake 4.3
• SFML 2.6.2 (x64)
• GLEW 2.3.1 (x64)
• GLM 1.0.1

Steps:

1. Checkout commit e803ca5 (the "ep 4" version)
2. cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64
3. cmake --build build --config Release

Observed issues (all require manual fixes):

1. Missing includes:

   • STD_Util.h needs
   • Structures_Builder.h needs
   • Several files missing /

2. CMakeLists.txt:

   • sfml-audio.lib was not linked (needed by Music_Player)
   • GLEW hardcoded to Win32 path, breaks x64 build

3. Missing function implementation:

   • getFileNamesFromFolder() declared but never implemented

4. Incomplete type / link errors:

   • CBlock::getData() declared but not defined (fixed by inline dummy in Nodes.h)
   • Block::Data_Holder is forward-declared but never fully defined
   • Multiple files fail with "dummy uses undefined class Block::Data_Holder"

5. Additional issues:

   • Several struct/class mismatches (C4099 warnings)
   • CMake_minimum_required version triggers deprecation warning

This is not a complaint — just a report in case anyone else tries to build this on Windows.
With the fixes above, the project eventually links and runs (though with warnings).

Thanks for sharing the code.

(Finally, debugging this code has left me completely exhausted. I hope the author will update it as soon as possible and provide detailed instructions.Thank you very much.)

[Hopson97]

Hiya, you are absolutely right.. I just spent the last hour or so trying to build this project (using visual studio) but the amount of clean-up required is ridiculous and there seems to be files that are duplicates of other files just renames (especially things like block types and the game states), and it has got the point where I am giving up for now. I may re-visit this project to actually build it properly at some point and push fixes.

Honestly I am very impressed you managed to actually build and run this, I do apologise you had to go through such a headache to achieve this.

No idea how the code ended up in this state, though it is very very old project at this point (this was my first 'big' project). I try to make my current projects as easy to build as possible (as you can with C++ anyways), but these older projects not so much 😬

[Hopson97]

I have re-read your comments and can see now it's the episode 4 commit you compiled, that's probably a much better state than whatever the master branch is.

I'll check out that version today to try and improve building for it, and potentially override master.