charleshamel/browser-for-mirc

CEF chromium framework for mIRC (DLL) scripting

CEF chromium framework for mIRC

Acquired from project home at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mchef/

Built with Visual C++ 2008 Express on a Microsoft Windows 10 installation

VC 2008 Express does not contain ATL/MFC libraries , a work-around
was to use ATL/MFC folders.

(Added include folders)

Tools -> Options -> Project and Solutions -> VC++ Directories

Platform: Win32

Show directories for:  Include Files

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\atlmfc\include\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\atlmfc\lib\x86\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17763.0\um

ATL/MFC Include files were acquired from the VC++ community 2019 build. ( Calls made to afxres.h )
the afxres.h then calls winres.h which is acquired from \Windows Kits\ SDK

mChef Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General -> Use of MFC->  (Use Standard Window Libraries)

Changed Build Events for ver.exe
to be "Excluded from Build: Yes"

Visual Studio 2008 Express:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/B/5/8B5804AD-4990-40D0-A6AA-CE894CBBB3DC/VS2008ExpressENUX1397868.iso

Window Kits can be acquired here
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk

Visual Studio Community 2019
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/

Note: Installing via Visual Studio Community 2017 and 2019 failed with various issues relating to paths.
"DirectoryName illegal characters in path." Which was due to quotation marks being read in the path. Then we have a mismatch of library folders.
Other issues were raised. Eventually it was decided to use it's native compiler VC2008