A.R.Drone Developer Guide - Abstract

12 Building the Windows
Example
The AR.Drone SDK provides a client application example for Windows.
This example called SDK Demo, shows the minimum software required to control an AR.Drone
with a gamepad or a keyboard. It should be used as a skeleton for all your Windows projects.
In this section, we are going to show you how to build this example on a Windows Seven
workstation. We will suppose you are familiar with C programming and you already have
Visual Studio installed on your machine.
12.1 Set up your development environment
Get some development tools
This demo was tested with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express edition, on a Windows 7 64Bits
Platform. It should work with any version of Windows XP, Vista, and Seven with minor
changes if any.
The required libraries are :
• The Microsoft Windows SDK (available here), Windows Headers and Library.
• The Microsoft DirectX SDK (available here), to use a Gamepad for drone control.
• The SDL Library (available here) which is used in the example to display the video, but
which can be easily replaced;
• Only for Windows XP and earlier - The Pthread for Win32 library (available here)
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