win32 on visual c++ express

i think i have blogged about you can't do win32 in VC++ 2005 Express or just as a default.

so i finally figured out the way and it was actually well worth going through. i did learn how to configure IDE a little more in depth.

only thing that i thought weren't necessary was that after installing Platform SDK you had to manually add directories comilers/linker look for libraries.

it says (install)/PlatformSDK/blah and looks as though it works without doing anything but they don't since library files are in Program Files..and they can't somehow tell where they have installed.

i need more explanation for this but i'll just go with it since i don't think i want to learn about that fact. i'm not pro in this area.

anyway, win32 totally works on my windows and now i can just make stupid application that shows blank window and that's it. yeah it's harder than hello world in C++ console application though.

anyway..win32 sucks. too complicated / unorganized. in my opinion. at least compared to cocoa (mac os x developement environment)