Re: [Boost-build] Build with VS8 and VS9

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Build with VS8 and VS9
From: Nogradi, Chris (Chris.Nogradi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-04 09:43:47

On Sunday, February 02, 2014 11:59 PM, Vyacheslav Andrejev wrote:
>
> VP> I vaguely believe windows.h and friends are now part of Platform
> VP> SDK, but I don't remember how a compiler finds them, and which
> VP> version is used.
>
> Compiler finds them using environment variables. Boost build executes
> vcvars32.bat file that sets them. vcvars32.bat in turn looks up the
> registry at *\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft
> SDKs\Windows\CurrentInstallFolder and sets SDK include dirs relative to
> it.
> If it fails, it sets SDK include dir to
> %VCINSTALLDIR%\PlatformSDK\Include.
> Therefore technically all versions of VS should use the same winnt.h and
> winioctl.h if the correspondent registry key exists and the user has
> sufficient rights to read it.
>
> I would recommend to go to a command line, start vcvars32.bat manually and
> check INCLUDE environment variable after that. Or start procmon and check
> where winnt.h and winioctl.h come from when compiling using VC8 and VC9.
>
> --

Thanks Volodya and Vyacheslav, I was able to build it fine on another machine using VS2008 so the original machine must be mis-configured.

Chris

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