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by **beanboy89** » Sat 16 Dec, 2006 11:06 pm

Inspired by Antony's Cheap Calculator, I decided to create my own calculator application, titled Very Cheap Calculator. Unlike Cheap Calculator, the program is run in a Command Prompt; there is no GUI, and that is how the program got its name.

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Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 - Win32 Executable
*note: You may need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package to run this program.

Source

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by **Antony** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 12:14 pm

I just tested it, and it does not work on my Windows 2000 Professional (SP4).

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:02 pm

Did you download the Visual C++ 2005 Redist pack? MSVCP80.dll is part of it.

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by **Pu7o** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:07 pm

Also, the source code compiles under your beloved Mac OS X.

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by **Antony** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:29 pm

Don_HH2K wrote:Did you download the Visual C++ 2005 Redist pack? MSVCP80.dll is part of it.

No.

The only software I installed are QuickTime Player 7 and WinZip. Nothing other than aforementioned software and SP4 was installed (not even MSIE 5.5, which Windows Update website wants me to upgrade.)

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:35 pm

Well, it's no surprise that a VC8-compiled program won't run if you don't have the VC8 runtime installed.

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by **Antony** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:42 pm

I hope the Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 can be compiled to executable file without the need of special runtime environment/engine.

(The Cheap Calculator I compiled does not need special runtime environment installed.)

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 1:59 pm

Antony wrote:I hope the Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 can be compiled to executable file without the need of special runtime environment/engine.

Anybody with GCC/Win32 or some older version of MSVC want to compile this for us?

Antony wrote:(The Cheap Calculator I compiled does not need special runtime environment installed.)

Sure it does. You need a Cocoa runtime.

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by **beanboy89** » Sun 17 Dec, 2006 5:08 pm

Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:I hope the Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 can be compiled to executable file without the need of special runtime environment/engine.

Anybody with GCC/Win32 or some older version of MSVC want to compile this for us?

I could compile it at school using MSVC 6.0, but you might have to wait until after the new year to get it.

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by **beanboy89** » Tue 19 Dec, 2006 7:58 pm

beanboy89 wrote:
Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:I hope the Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 can be compiled to executable file without the need of special runtime environment/engine.

Anybody with GCC/Win32 or some older version of MSVC want to compile this for us?

I could compile it at school using MSVC 6.0, but you might have to wait until after the new year to get it.

I have some good news and some bad news regarding compiling in MSVC 6.0.

First the bad news: Although I was unable to compile Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 from the source in MSVC 6.0. It seems that the code that I'm using to make the program pause after the answer is calculated, [tt]system("PAUSE");[/tt], is not compatible in MSVC 6.0. If I remove the line with that code in it, the program compiles, but immediately quits after running... Does anyone know of something like [tt]system("PAUSE");[/tt] that works in MSVC 6.0?

Now the good news, after the school's network drives were down yesterday for backing up (due to being at 91% capacity), no data was lost. I also discovered that my school has Novell NetStorage, so I can access my school network drive from home, meaning that I can download any of my C++ projects, along with any versions of Very Cheap Calculator that I happen to compile at school.

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by **Pu7o** » Tue 19 Dec, 2006 9:08 pm

You need to do [tt]#include <stdlib.h>[/tt] to use system() in MSVC 6.

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by **beanboy89** » Wed 20 Dec, 2006 5:25 pm

Pu7o wrote:You need to do [tt]#include <stdlib.h>[/tt] to use system() in MSVC 6.

Thanks, Pedro. Adding that seemed to work. Now with that done...

Very Cheap Calculator 0.1 (MSVC 6.0) - Win32 Executable - Compiled in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.

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