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[dandy]

nevermind, i had to choose self contained in the compiler options .

[Lexikos]

For the last couple of AutoHotkey releases, I have used a script to automate the changes to the project file necessary to compile in Visual C++ Express Edition 2005:

AutoHotkeyProjUpgrade.ahk

Requires xpath (in your function library).

Notes:

• It will prompt for the location of the folder containing AutoHotkey.vcproj, though currently it only modifies the vcproj itself.
  
• It will prompt you to open the project file to run the (VC++ Express) conversion wizard if the project file version is < 8.0.
  
• It optionally creates a back-up.
  
• The changes it makes may be slightly different to corrupt's original instructions.
  
• If upx.exe exists in the parent directory of the project directory, it updates the post-build event to use that.
  

Edit:
I get an error trying to start a script compiled with an "SC (minimum size)" bin file. It seems to need something in its embedded manifest; does anyone know what?

[SuperBadMan]

I followed all the steps and successfully compiled the prj and get the AutoHotkey.exe, however, when I run it I found that the XP style of GUI was lost. Why this happend and how to solved it?

Best regards!

[deleyd]

I tried compiling AutoHotKey on my Vista Home Premium SP1 using:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, 9.0.21022.8 RTM, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008

First try was to create a Debug version, but I just got a bunch of

[Lexikos]

You need a version of the Windows SDK installed which covers at least the versions of Windows you want to develop applications for.

[fincs]

I can sucessfully compile AutoHotkey with a fresh Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008 SP1 install, after following the steps in the main post (without installing the SDK). Maybe there's something that I am missing?
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[Lexikos]

Ah,

[newcomer]

Is there any different between the exe file compiled by the latest version of ahk and the exe file compiled using the ahk compiler made by visual C++ 2005 or 2008?

In terms of security or decompilation?

Thanks.

[fincs]

The EXE created by VC++ 2005/2008 is NOT compatible with Windows 9x/ME while the EXE distributed by Chris (VC++ 2003) is compatible with those systems.
Also, the public source for AutoHotkey doesn't have support for /NoDecompile.
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SciTE4AutoHotkey v2 script editor
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[newcomer]

[fincs]

/NoDecompile prevents the decompiling.
So if /NoDecompile is not supported, the final EXE could be decompiled.

The most secure EXE is the one that Chris distributes.
And for Unicode, it doesn't matter.

HTH
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SciTE4AutoHotkey v2 script editor
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[newcomer]

[zhenggc]

if (fgets(buf, 4, fp)) // Success (the fourth character is the terminator).
{
if (strcmp(buf, "锘?)) // UTF-8 BOM marker is NOT present.
rewind(fp); // Go back to the beginning so that the first three bytes aren't omitted during loading.
// The code size of rewind() has been checked and it seems very tiny.
}

what this "if (strcmp(buf, "锘?)) ????
with script.cpp

[Lexikos]

It checks for (and excludes) the UTF-8 byte order mark, which indicates the file is encoded with UTF-8. The intent appears to be to support files beginning with the byte order mark, by ignoring it.

Btw, your question is off-topic.

[HotKeyIt]

Corrupt, thank you very much for this explanation, I can finally compile AutoHotkey.exe.

However there is a problem using width in ListView.
When I specify a width for ListView, it is not applied and LV_ModifyCol() does not do what it shoud as well.
Can anyone try execute following script using your compiled AutoHotkey.exe and check if Column is set to w200 or resized to fit its contents?