Re: [jamboost] Re: Platform SDK toolset initialization

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-19 04:37:51

Alexey Pakhunov wrote:
> Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> 
>>- ms-platform-sdk.jam module declares psdk-related features and defines 
>>common rules;
>>- msvc.jam and other toolsets reuse ms-platform-sdk.jam code and contain 
>>toolset-specific psdk code;
> 
> 
> Yes.

Don't call ms-platform-sdk.jam "a toolset" then. I wonder what is the 
correct term for it? A module?

>>>It seems PSDK 
>>>setup script 'SetEnv.cmd' tries to detect MS Visual Studio installation 
>>>and fails if nothing was found. When two VS installations are installed 
>>>only the latest will be detected and used.
>>
>>Why do you think so? I looked at Windows Server 2003 SP1 SDK and 
>>SetEnv.cmd looks for %DevEnvDir% and %MSVCDir% first. vcvars32.bat from 
>>VC7.1 sets both, and vcvars32.bat from vc8 sets only %DevEnvDir%.
> 
> 
> I have VS 8 and VC++ Toolkit installed. When I compile using VC++ 
> Toolkit and PSDK, neither %DevEnvDir% nor %MSVCDir% present. 
> vcvars32.bat from VC++ Toolkit does not set any of them. As result 
> SetEnv.cmd runs PSDK\Setup\VCDetect.exe which detects VS 8 installation 
> and calls vcvars32.bat from it.
> 
> So what I get is:
> 
> VC++ Toolkit\vcvars32.bat
> VS 8\vcvars32.bat
> PSDK\setenv.cmd
> cl ...
> 
> Actually combining your explanation and mine a solution (for VC++ 
> Toolkit configuration) can be found. We can set %DevEnvDir% and 
> %MSVCDir% before calling SetEnv.cmd.

setenv.cmd checks for "%MSVCDir%\..\Common7\IDE\" and other folders. So 
for VC Toolkit it probably won't work either so we should set the 
environment ourselves if setenv.bat still . The problem is that the 
environment must be set after calling vcvars32:

VC++ Toolkit\vcvars32.bat
set INCLUDE=
set LIB=
set PATH=
cl ...

Fortunately it's possible with current $(prefix) framework.

Also I wonder

- Should we set PATH for PSDK?
- Should we call vcvars32?
- Does vcvars32 offer us any advantages over setting the INCLUDE, LIB 
and PATH manually even for Studio itself?
- Do we really need to set the evironment? Would adding -I $(STDHDRS) 
option be better? Just like we do for Borland toolset?

Andrey