@DraggonFantasy,
I've been trying to get the game to compile, but seem to be missing a few steps. Could you share what you did/programs you used to make it work? I gave Darmani a ping but he's pretty busy atm so if you could help that would be great.
steps I've taken so far (working on a Windows 7 machine):
(1) install Visual studio Express C++ 2010 (I usually develop in Eclipse, and that one was free)
(2) fetch latest from the Mercurial repo and open the VC project (.vcproj file)
(3) compile failed on some include failure
--> fixed by adding (path to to ironfist repo)/ironfist/src/cpp and (...)/ironfist/src/cpp/lib to include path
(4) Compile failed on error "'CString' : undeclared identifier" in file dialog.cpp
--> guess my includes aren't 100% correct yet... quick workaround: comment the code
(5) massive syntax errors on everything in the xerxes folder
--> stuck here... more include issues? Maybe I don't have correct libraries installed?