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

In installed the Windows Platform SDK (April 2005 Edition) and as you noted
it did not have any of the compiler tools. I have not tried the latest SDK,
but am somewhat reluctant to do so since it is aimed at .Net Framework 3 and
Vista which we do not currently support and would likely have different
libraries/header files/etc. than we build against in VS 2005. Out of
desperation, I removed the SDK and installed the Visual C++ Express edition.
As feared, I was not able to build because of a (at least one) missing DLL
(mspdb80.dll). Perhaps the combination of the Windows Platform SDK and the
Express edition will get me further, but so far I do not have a solution to
setting up a build machine without Visual Studio 2005.
--
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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