Re: Building VC++ 8.0 code on a machine without Visual Studio 2005

Jeffrey,
I should have been more specific in my post. In our group, each
developer has an individual VS 2005 Professional Edition with MSDN
Professional Subscription. We are now setting up a build machine to do
periodic and official builds. Since the build machine is a separate machine,
we needed a way to set up a build environment without VS 2005 being
installed. A previous post suggested using VC++ express, but we want to use
the exact same compilers/tools to do official builds as are used to do
developer builds (in VS 2005 and NAnt). Perhaps the Windows SDK will be the
way to go, but now it seems we have another issue. We are building and using
unmanaged VC++8. We need header files/libs/etc. that match our developer
build environment in VS 2005 (i.e., those that shipped with the IDE). I
suppose these could be diffed and copied if they were different. I will give
the SDK a shot and see if it works.

Thanks,
Carl


""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Carl,

Sorry for letting you wait.

Further research shows that the latest Platform SDK below includes
command-line compilers to build C/C++ and Windows applications:
"Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit for Windows Vista? and .NET
Framework 3.0 Runtime Components"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c2b1e300-f358-4523-
b479-f53d234cdccf&DisplayLang=en

"Tools and Build Environments: In addition to the headers and libraries
used to build Windows applications, the Windows SDK includes more than 100
GUI and command-line tools to aid in the development of native (Win32) and
managed (.NET) systems for the Windows platform. The tools include
command-line compilers (both x86 and x64), debuggers, performance
monitoring applications, security management utilities, and more. "

Note: this PlatformSDK can be installed on WinXP SP2 and Win2003 machine.

Based on the discussion with VC product team, they would like to know your
comments on the Visual C++ Express SKU. Using it in combination with the
Windows SDK is definitely a scenario we do support and in fact the VC
product team are working right now to make it work better in the Orcas
release, so understanding your concerns would be very helpful for us to
improve it.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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