How to create an executable?

I developed my game to a certain degree. However, it is hard to communicate with my long distance team members about where the game is now, without something to show them. I would like to make my game up to this point into an executable file, to be able to send to my team members, so that they can play the game as it is, to give them an idea on where the game currently is.

Does anyone know how to make an executable of the game that I have made up to this point?

In wed or sed you can publish your script, creating an exe for it (you cannot do this with the free version iirc).

I opened up my SED file. I clicked the File button, and clicked the Publish Main Script option. A box came up. I clicked OK a few times, and then it ended. I tried finding the name of my game file with a .exe file extension, but I cannot find it. Do you know where to find the executable file of the game SED file that I published?

I did find a folder with my game file title with a .cd file extension. I put this in a compressed zipped folder, to send over yahoo to my team members. The problem now is that yahoo will not let me e-mail it to my team members, because it says that the attachment has a virus.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, how did you fix it?

password protect it and their scanner shouldnt detect anything, otherwise delete some dlls, if that doesnt work upload it on mediafire

offtopic: I have not used yahoo since about 1998

Do the people opening up the executable have to have Gamestudio installed on their computer to run it?

Also, can the executable work with the Mac OS X operating system, or just Windows? I am assuming just Windows.

No, they don't.
Currently GS supports windows exclusively. Android support might follow...

I thought I correctly published my game so far. In my main Lite-C script SED file, I clicked the File tab, and clicked on the Publish Main Script option. This box came up that looked like it was compiling. I pressed OK. A folder was then saved in the folder that I have all my Gamestudio files in, titled the name of my main script.

I placed that folder in another zipped folder under the same name. I then saved it on WireFire with password protection.

How do people run the executable? Do they have to open the main script file (SED Lite-C Script file) saved in the zipped folder that I placed on WireFire, and execute the program from there?

Am I even doing this right?

The folder should contain an executable, a .exe file. This what the users should start.

The only file types that I am able to see in my gameFile.cd folder are:

Lite-C Header
MDL Model
WMB Compiled Level
PCX FIle
Application extension
Lite-C Script
DDS File

I do not see any file in the gameFile.cd folder that has the EXE file type.

I tried publishing my main script all over again, and I am still not receiving a .exe file in my gameFile.cd folder.

Is it supposed to be called gameFile.exe ?

What's your GameStudio version and edition?

SED version: 8.10.1
(c) Conitec (www.3dgamestudio.com)
Atari, Inc (www.atari.com)
Gustav Nordvall, Tranås, Sweden

My WED states this:

Gamestudio Team Comm 8.40 / WED V6.961
Copyright (c) Conitec Datensysteme GmbH 1999,2011

My MED states this:

MED Version 6.922
Copyright (c) Conitec Datensysteme GmbH 1999,2011

If this is not the information you are looking for, how do I find the version and edition of the Gamestudio I have?

I tried looking through the GStudio8 folder in my Programs folder in my C drive, but I have having a hard time finding this information in there.

Ok when you publish your game, have you checked the content of the publish dialog/ process? AFAIR it normally lists that your *.exe has been generated, too.

It's unlikely but have you tried to deactivate your anti virus program? Maybe it deletes the *.exe file on creation.

This is all that shows up in the Publish box after it supposedly compiles the exe:

Project Files:
1. orcstronghold3.c
2. acknex.h
3. litec.h
4. compat.h
5. atypes.h
6. afuncs.h
7. avars.h
8. default.c
9. inventory.c
10. cursor.pcx
11. spell.dds
12. StrongholdArena.wmb
13. Player.mdl
14. StrongholdMain.wmb
15. Stronghold2ndF.wmb
16. StrongholdTemple.wmb
17. bloodpool.pcx
18. palette.pcx
19. AnimatedFlame.mdl
20. TorchHandle.mdl
21. StrongholdDoor.wmb
22. Medieval DDoors.wmb
23. CastleTorchFlame.mdl
24. MedievalMace.mdl
25. AnimatedFlame2.mdl
26. armor knight.mdl
27. wizard.mdl
28. ogre.MDL
MAP Entities:
Autobind:
1. Skipped: C:\Users\Ruben\Desktop\Backup Files\Gamestudio Working Files\acknex.wdf
2. C:\Program Files\GStudio8\d3dx9_42.dll

subdirectory created:
c:\users\ruben\desktop\backup files\gamestudio working files\orcstronghold3.cd\

Is "Compile EXE" checked?

When the Publish box first comes up after selecting Publish Main Script under the File menu? Yes.

Please try to compile and publish another project and check if it works there.

I don't know if I'm right but here is a piece of information from the Gamestudio page.

yes, that is the reason

Yes Scifi, you are right. Thank you. I have to get the non-team version to publish games.