Under the assumption that an SDK is going to be the medium used by mod-teams for mod making, I’m just curious if the necessary steps are going to be taken to insure 100% compatibility between the two versions.
For those who do not know, Valve’s Half-Life 2 SDK had severe problems with VS2K5 and after much work and several SDK “patch” releases, the SDK was finally compatible with VS2K5, though, even as I write this, it still has some issues.
Anyone have word on this? Can a dev chime in?
AFAIK, the Doom 3 SDK can be brought to compile with VS 2005 Express Edition and almost works with VS 2005 out of the box. See Doom3World: Possible to use VS2005 EE to compile? for the procedures. I haven’t checked myself.
However, if it’s true, there is a large chance that ET:QW works too. Technically, only the engine hooks could turn out to be compiler dependant, all other stuff should be standard C++.
If you are coding, notepad works. I want to see you generating a .dll with notepad though. 
He never said compile…he just said compatible. 
Word documents can be compatible with Microsoft Works but you can’t get Works to produce a Word doc (without some work).
We’re using 2k5 (With SP1) for ETQW dev. You’ll want to use this, or the express edition of it, to compile your mods. This shouldn’t be a problem for anyone as the express edition, or even just the standalone compiler tools, are available for free from Microsoft.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it will compile/work the same way in Microsoft’s compilers, which have a varying degree of standards compliance.