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| ===What is Source Code?===
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| XBMC's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code source code] is in C++ (and some Assembly) programming-language, (and a few dependency libraries in the C programming-language), and for the Xbox this source code needs to be compiled (built) with the [[XDK]] before it can be used.
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| * Source Code is the recipe for a computer program.
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| ** Source code is geared towards human-readibility.
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| ** Source code is useless by itself.
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| ** Source code needs to be interpreted and understod (compiled).
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| '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code Source code]''' is simply the human-readable version of the computer commands that make up a '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/software software program]'''. It is the letters and symbols that '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer software engineers]''' (a.k.a. developers) type into their computers when they create an software-application or operating-system. For example, if a C++ programmer wrote a program to make his computer display the words, "Hello, World," the source code might look like this:
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| <cpp>
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| #include <iostream.h>
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| void main()
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| {
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| cout<<"Hello, World";
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| }
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| </cpp>
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| Although these commands are intelligible to engineers, they are useless to computers, which understand only ones and zeros. So, to make the source code into a functioning program, translation software (called a "compiler") must convert it into the binary "object code" that computers can process.
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| * To compile XBMC to make a Xbox excutable file you need:
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| ** Full installation (not minimum) of "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1" (2003 version).
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| ** Microsoft Xbox SDK (a.k.a. [[XDK]]) version 5778 or 5849.
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