Initial release - Getting started with Runtime-Compiled C++

[Matthew Jack]

As I'll be announcing in a blog post today, the source code is now
live on Github at: https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus

Below are the basic instructions for getting started - there will
surely be teething troubles for some people, so please feel free to
document problems you have in this thread.

There are a number of dependencies: at minimum you'll need Windows XP
or above, the June 2010 DirectX SDK and Visual Studio C++ 2010, either
a commercial version or the free Express one will do. You'll also need
the redistributable packages for Visual Studio C++ 2008 (and possibly
VS 2005), due to some dependencies we currently only have binaries
libraries for but which we intend to move to full source. If you get a
side by side configuration error message, you're probably missing one
of these. It's fairly likely you'll already have these installed, so
try and compile and run the code before searching down the
dependencies. We also have an issue with spaces in the path, so place
the code in a path with no spaces. We'll do our best to resolve these
issues ASAP.

First things you'll want to know once it's compiled: set SimpleTest as
the startup project, this is the "Pulse" demo; when it's running,
click on the splash screen to start the action; if you click the icon
in the top-left of the window, you'll get some buttons include "New
game" and "Restart", which will let you switch to the full set of game
objects and reset the simulation.

Hope you enjoy having a play :-)