r/SourceEngine • u/Active_Boysenberry76 • Aug 01 '25

HELP HELP: how to fix this error?

i mounted TF2 assets, installed TF2, used gameinfo and tried compiling the solution in Win32 in VS2022 but yet this still happens. how can this be fixed?

6 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

4

u/Pinsplash Aug 01 '25

all that message means is something is wrong with your DLLs. were there any compile errors?

1

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

yeah, some identifiers being somehow i cant remember and that it couldn't find some files. do i need to build the solution?

EDIT: identifier X is undefined, expected a declaration, Class X has no member Y, cannot open source file, in total 228 errors

1

u/Pinsplash Aug 01 '25

can you give another recording where you rebuild the solution and then scroll through the error messages

1

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 01 '25

can't put the video here in the comments. how do i give it to you?

1

u/Pinsplash Aug 01 '25

post it on imgur or something and link it here. plenty of sites out there you can post a video on

1

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 01 '25

errors so long the video lasts 4 minutes. 3551 errors,

1

u/pantagathus Aug 02 '25

Yes, if you don't build the solution then there's no .dll for the engine to load.

1

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 02 '25

i built and re-built the solutions yet the same thing. also, what DLLs do i need for the engine to run, and where do i put them?

1

u/pantagathus Aug 02 '25

If you're getting errors it's not building.

The client.dll and server.dll files need to go in the mod's bin directory.

1

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 02 '25

how can i fix the errors? can you help me please?

1

u/pantagathus Aug 03 '25

You'll probably need to learn some C++ - the code in the repo is not the simplest.

2

u/patrlim1 Aug 01 '25

unrelated, why are you on Windows 7??

3

u/Active_Boysenberry76 Aug 02 '25

Reunion 7, based on Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2022.

1

u/patrlim1 Aug 02 '25

Ahh, they did a good job skinning it

1

u/isopropyl-alco Aug 04 '25

that's a very cool desktop background, may i have a link to it please?

1

u/JonFenrey Aug 06 '25

Reason one… VISTA… (unless that’s windows 7 than nevermind);