I have been using both Visual C++ 2005 express, as well as the Microsoft Visual C++ toolkit 2003.

I have also attempted to use the walkthrough posted by TheWarden at
http://www.macroquest2.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4761

no success with either.

so far I've tried several of the ways mentioned on these boards to compile this program and I keep getting the same error "------ Build started: Project: MQ2Main, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ Compiling... MQ2Windows.cpp c:\Documents and Settings\Tania\Desktop\MQ2\MQ2Main\MQ2Main.h(31) : ...