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

Jeffrey,
Thank you for the clarification. I still do not seem to have a
solution without buying another VS 2005 license (we do use MFC in our Visual
C++ 8.0 code). On the other hand, frankly, it does not seem quite fair that
one would need to buy an IDE license just to get the required build
environment/tools when the IDE would not be used (and really is not the thing
that is wanted). The new SDK seems to go part of the way, but stops short of
providing the required environment (which, for us, includes MFC). Maybe I can
cobble something together between the older SDK and the new SDK, but I would
have hoped for a more straightforward solution. Not sure what else to say....

Thanks,
Carl
--
Carl


""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Carl,

Thanks for your feedback.

Below is the further feedback from the VC product team:

"Win2k3 and older Platform SDKs contained ATL, MFC, CRT, STL that can only
be used to port 32bit apps built with VC6 to 64bit. Windows Vista SDK can
be used to target Windows 2k3, WinXP and Windows Vista. This SDK ships VC05
version of x86, x64, ia64, x86->x64, x86->ia64 compilers + CRT and Std. C++
libraries (headers, libs, redist MSMs, pdbs). However, it does not install
any version of ATL and MFC.

If you want to get ATL and MFC, you should be installing Visual Studio Std.
or higher."

Additionally, to use the Platform SDK to build VC applications, you should
use the CMD shell installed with it. This CMD shell will set most of the
environment variables from the Platform SDK correctly, including PATH, LIB,
INCLUDE etc... It is a good idea to use Process Explorer to view all the
environment variables setting of a process. Please refer to the link below
to install Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExp
lorer.mspx

Thanks.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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