giddy wrote:
> and it almost never ends!.......... but i did manage to get to
> first.exe so this is for anyone else who has the same problems.
>
> I tried using cl.exe and i got Application failed to start
> 'mspdb80.dll' missing.
>
> Seems the environment variables needed by Visual Studio were missing/
> not present, the file vSvars32.bat fixes everything, there is another
> file vCvars32.bat that just runs the earlier file. This wasn't the end
> of it, the batch file did not work for some reason, i tried running it
> in every different way. None of the env vars were actually set.
>
> I ended up copying the "missing" dll files from my VS Install dir to
> the VC\Bin, which is mentioned in some post on forums.microsoft.com,
> after that i still got a link error 'some lib file missing', for that
> i manually set
>
> LIB=G:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;G:\Microsoft Visual
> Studio 8\VC\LIB;G:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\lib;G:
> \Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\lib;
>
> (I'm guessing setting all the Env vars mentioned in vsvars.bat should
> fix any other errors)
>
> So finally i got first.exe created! And somehow it was terribly
> exciting to see the output of the program that took all that effort!
> lol
>
> -Gideon
>
Something must be messed up with your install. I've had none of this
trouble. I just use the VS 2005 Command Prompt (which sets up the
environment by using one of the bat files you mention) and everything
works. You did try this, right?
--
Paul Carter
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