[M3devel] some more notes on the win32 system

[Tony Hosking]

Shouldn't Jay's notes go somewhere on the CM3 Web-site?

On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Jay wrote:

> some more notes on the win32 system
>
> > setup your C++ compiler/linker
>
> You can/should "play dumb", skip that, and just run upgrade.
> See what errors you get.
> I tried to put in the right amount of up front sanity checking.
>
> What you need in particular are
>
> cl and link on the %PATH%.
>   See, cminstall would have you specify full paths, my  
> configuration uses %PATH%.
> If using VS2005 (8) or newer, mt on the path.
>
> %LIB% is a semicolon delimited list of directories.
> That is a feature of the Microsoft linker.
> msvcrt.lib must be in one of them.
>
> Any 32 bit version of Visual C++ -- 2.0, 4.0,, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 6.0,  
> 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 -- should work.
> I have tested all of them some and many required small changes in  
> one particular spot,
>  that actually is only used by "maintainers" (C:\dev2\cm3\m3-win 
> \import-libs\src\make-lib-1.cmd).
> I use 8.0 the most lately.
> I haven't done much with 9.0.
>
> Another thing, fairly redundant:
>
> C:\dev2\cm3\m3-win>more vcredist.txt
> On computers without Visual C++ 2005 or CLR 2.0 installed, download  
> and run the setup for the Visual C++ runtime -- vcredist_x86.exe --  
> from either
>
> RTM (release to manufacturing):
>   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE- 
> A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE
>
> or Service Pack 1:
>   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9- 
> ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647
>
> You can find those searching the web for vcredist, no real need to  
> recort the URLs. That's about it.
>
>  - Jay
>
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