Re: [jamboost] Re: The right configuration mechanism

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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