Re: [jamboost] Re: The right configuration mechanism

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-16 10:17:07

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.

> And VC8 doesn't seem to set up anything 
> at all. 

VC8 June CTP and Beta2 set up VS80COMNTOOLS. I'll check this later when 
I get my VS DVD back. I lent my DVD-RW to a friend and forgot to take 
the disk out of the drive.

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

Do you mean compilers, or toolsets here? I can see that CW uses cwenv.bat.

Andrey