Where's Goku?

[eric]

Nope. That limit is there because of the math involved and limiting placement to adjoining tiles only.

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[landnrailroader]

I haven't looked at the source code and rarely use TSRE anyway, but that is probably going to be a "forced change" soon.
I still use Win-7 because I have a ATI Radeon video card and it is almost impossible to get an Nvidia card these days at
any price, I guess account of the chip issue we all read about. To go to Win-10 would require an Nvidia card to run
MSTS, and Win-11 has just been relelased, so we do not yet know what horrors we will have to deal with to use MSTS
"DATA" if not the MSTS program itself, on Win-11. I have no intention of going that way until it has been out a while
and the most glaring problems corrected - as is the case with any new operating system.

I used to be able to decipher "C" or "Visual C" but that is not the problem. To compile a program from source code
you must have a compiler and those can be pricey. Then the creator probably used some kind of script file to tell
the compiler how to handle this or that, and that is where the going gets tough. I hope Goku is okay and while I
don't use the program much, I find it is the absolute best there is for aligning objects to the track or a road.

J. H. Sullivan

[jonpd]

I used to be able to decipher "C" or "Visual C" but that is not the problem. To compile a program from source code
you must have a compiler and those can be pricey.

Actually for C++ or Java there are free compilers available, as well as frameworks for program development (IDE) such as Eclipse.

https://gcc.gnu.org/

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

I used Eclipse as a C++ and Java developer, it is the standard IDE for developers.

C# as used by Open Rails is another issue as it is proprietary to Microsoft but I believe there are inexpensive options there for casual developers. I have never used it myself so I have not looked into it.

[slipperman]

Hi jonpd,
The development environment for C# is Microsoft's Visual Studio Express, which also supports C++.
This is free, although registration with Microsoft is required, and all my utilities have been written in that language.

It has now been replaced by Visual Studio Community which, also, is free, but I've not tried it yet!

Cheers,
Ged

[jonpd]

Hi Ged,
I will have to try C# sometime. As I understand it, it is somewhat similar to Java, having been developed by Microsoft due to the fact that Java itself is proprietary to Oracle and its predecessors and they wanted to do something a little different as they tried to do with J++ but ran into problems due to non compliance with the Java standard. I spent the last 16 years of my career programming in Java which I am comfortable with but it has its idiosyncrasies e.g. how I/O is handled.

Jon

[muskokaandtahoe]

Anybody familiar w/ C# (or even interested from a C++ or Java background) would be probably be received warmly by the OR team. I'm sure there is a "want to help link?" on the OR web site.

[eric]

When I worked with Piotr a few years ago to get the build of TRSE to work I had trouble getting Qt to build but eventually got it to work after setting some paths.

Add these paths to your system environmental variable PATH:

C:\yourMinGW\msys\1.0\bin;
C:\yourMinGW\bin;
C:\yourMinGW\opt\bin;

replace yourMinGW with proper path

If your path to qmake looks like this then it is ok:
C:\Qt\Static\5.7.0\bin\qmake.exe

If you have everything installed:

1. Open Netbeans.
2. Click "Team->Git->Clone"
3. Enter repository adress: https://bitbucket.org/GokuMK/tsre5 and
your login and password for bitbucket
4. Next, ok ...
5. Enjoy playing with source code!

To build app you will probably need to edit configuration.
1. Right click on TSRE5 -> Properties
2. Build -> Manage Configuration -> select Release and click "set
active" button and press ok.
3. In Tool collection you should have MinGW_QT_5.7.0_Static. If you
don't have, click the [...] and make new like this:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]82386[/ATTACH]

Click "Build Project" button.

If you downloaded and installed Netbeans, download required tools and libs:

http://koniec.org/tsre5/tools/

1.
5.7.0 is static build of QT 5.7.0. Download and extract to
C:/QT/Static/
It has to be this path because it is hardcoded during compilation. If
you want put it somewhere else, you must build your own QT from
sources.

2.
MinGW is g++ compiler and gnu tools. Download and extract. Best in:
C:/
But if you must, you can put it in other place.

Yeah, followed your steps and got nowhere.

The bitbucket repository won't open, however github will.

Once the source is open, I can't build a project.... very frustrating coming from a C# background.

[GokuMK]

This QT static build is outdated. TSRE now uses 5.7.1 with openssl and websockets.
For your own purposes you can just install QT from their website and build TSRE using dynamic QT libs. Static build is required only for sharing the app to other users.
On Linux I use QT 5.15 and it works great. But for Windows older than 10, better stick to 5.7.1