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From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-16 09:57:11


Rene Rivera wrote:
> Andrey Melnikov wrote:
>
>>David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The
>>>installer gives you the option to *not* set up the environment, so I'd
>>>think the registry would be the more reliable of the two.
>>
>>I thought that if you don't setup the environment the installer just
>>doesn't setup INCLUDE/LIB persistently. IMO VS*COMNTOOLS is always set up.
>
>
> No, reverse that. VC71 at least sets up INCLUDE/LIB and not COMMTOOLS
> when you don't set up the env. And VC8 doesn't seem to set up anything
> at all.

Never mind :-) I checked again, and indeed the COMMTOOLS are set up
regardless.

> And regardless there are other Windows compilers than VC which
> use the registry instead of the env, like CW.

This is still true though ;-)

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