Hi,
does anybody know if it´s possible to use the "Express Edition" for Illustrator coding
or are there limitations with it. What do you use for coding - srictly Visual Studio/ Code Warrior? Are there any other resources/examples on the net, book or whatever besides the ones that come with the sdk. Any suggestions on how to start coding Illustrator are welcome - come on pros, please share same knowledge ;)
Visual Studio Express should work. Contact me for more specific information. Some Visual Studio 6 projects, and much portable plugin source code, is available from
my site.
In fact nearly all of the free Windows development systems will work, including
Borland CBuilder,
OpenWatcom, and probably
Digital Mars and
lcc-win32. I use
MinGW (a complete GNU-based Win32 development system) frequently to build Illustrator and Photoshop plugins.
After testing Visual Studio Express, I can report mixed results:
The IDE has been crippled so that it cannot build DLL projects.
The command line compiler and linker supplied with VS Express work just fine to build plugins, with a suitable makefile. I have written such a makefile (
nmake.mak) as part of my latest release,
Scramble. (The same makefile works with VS6 and should work with the free
VS CLI Toolkit.)
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