@Ryex, I usually get a lot of errors when building it. I've tried it in visual c++ 2008 and 2010, as well as visual studios 2005 (and whatever the most recent one is). I've also tried it in codeblocks. I'm running a 64 bit windows 7, so that might be a big part of the problem.
@Bliz, for the gaming aspect, I just make my own GUI classes like in RMXP. I need the windows GUIs because I want to make editors so I can hand off part of the design to my artist, since she doesn't have much to do after the initial character artwork. I'm currently making a clone of Super Smash (it's freaking hard btw), and I want to have another program for the character files, levels, and such. I guess I could write the editors in another language, but then I have to try and do what I'm doing now in a language i'm less familiar in, so it'd present a similar problem.
Thanks for responding, btw. I appreciate it.