Re: [boost] vc8 failure in boost_python-dll-vc-8_0

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-10 15:56:56

Bronek Kozicki <brok_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>>#   include <basetsd.h>
>>                ^^^^^^^^^
>
> this header (as the only one #included here) belongs to Platform SDK. It 
> should be in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\include" . 

Ah, there it is.

> It 
> certainly belongs to Microsoft Windows Core SDK - April 2005 edition. 
> Could you pls. check this on your computer? 

It is.

> If you have this file, did 
> you added the directory to INCLUDE? 

Nope.  I've never had to modify a stock VS installation in order to
get things to work before.  It doesn't appear that 

> To which one? If you have VC80_ROOT 
> set, 

I don't; I used the default installation location.

> you also need to have VS80COMNTOOLS set, as it is used by 
> %VC80_ROOT%\vcvarsall.bat , and the Platform SDK\include directory 
> should be *manually* added to %VS80COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat  

Okay, I edited 
c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools/vsvars32.bat 
to do that.  It's a big surprise to me that the SDK installer doesn't
take care of that stuff for me.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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