[program-l] Automating adding include paths to visual studio.

From: <Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:22 -0000
Hi all.

Got a bit of an odd question for you all. If anyone can answer this you
can officially where the "visual studio expert of the week" hat.

I'm compiling a set of c++ libraries which is to be used by the rest of
the software development team. This includes libs, include files and
executables. It's boost plus a hole lot of other stuff.

I'm trying to make it as easy for our guys to use this as possible so am
doing things like setting the path and any needed environment variables
in my installer. I've now got to the point where the only manual thing
our developers have to do is add the include and lib paths to the visual
studio 2005 environment through tools, options, projects and solutions,
vc++ directories.

Is there any way I can get my installer to automatically update the
visual studio settings? A registry key, environment variable, function
call, extra lines to a configuration file? something else?

Any ideas gratefully received.

Cheers.
Nick.






Nick Adamson
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