I've been programming on an amateur basis for a long time, and I'm relatively familiar with C/C++. I've been trying to play with the code off the SVN repository, but I have no idea how to get it to compile. I'm used to GCC and have absolutely no experience with Visual Studio. I tried opening the project with Visual Studio 2010, and it went through some obtuse import process and then utterly failed to work.
I'm guessing that the code was written using an earlier version of Visual Studio, and I'm wondering if I'd be better off using something other than VS 2010. Regardless, I'd like to know if there's anything specific I need to do to get the files to link and compile correctly.