Re: Installing MS Win32 SDK.
- From: "jaffar" <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:29:49 +0800
Hi Graham. From experience, i find the setenv.bat doesn't really work. I
would suggest a combination of 2 approaches that you can try, then let us know
if they work.
1. Set your environment path by hand.
Go to your desktop and choose your my computer icon. Press the context menu
key and arrow up once to bring out your properties menu. When the enter key is
pressed, you will land on the tab control tree which will enable you to
navigate to the different pages of the properties menu. Arrow right until you
hear advanced. Tab until you hear environment variables button and press
enter. The first option you'll come across is the user environment which will
not be of interest to you in this case. Tab until you hear system environment.
It is a list of environment variables available to you. Arrow down until you
hear path. Now, tab until you hear edit-I button. Upon pressing the enter or
space bar, you'll be presented with an edit box which lists all the programs
which can successfully run only if an environment path was set up for them.
Press ctrl+right arrow or ctrl+pagedown which will mark at the end of the
semi-colon separated list. Put a semi-colon mark at the end of the last
available environment variable if it is not present, then type in, for example,
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK r2\bin" without the quotes and semicolon at the
end. I would recommend that you really pay attention to the whereabouts of
your sdk's bin subdirectory by physically browsing for it yourself. When your
are sure that this has been done correctly, press ok, then ok and ok again to
close the properties menu. Your environment path is now set.
2. I am assuming you are using the visuall c++ 2005 express ide in this case,
though the procedure involved hear applies to any version of the visual studio
2005 ide.
open up your vc++ express ide. At the start page, choose tools/options. You
will be first presented with the general tab. Arrow down until you come to the
projects and solutions tree. Arrow right to open it. Arrow down until you
hear VC++ directories. Tab to a list which says Show Directories For. The
first item on that list is executable files. Check to see if your SDK's bin
directory is in the list by tabbing until you get to the list which will
present you with a list of executables or bin subdirs necessary for running and
building your programs. If it is not there, Tab to the new line entry, press
the space bar and repeat the typing of the sdk bin directory path that you did
when setting up your environment path. Now, tab back to the VC++ Files list,
arrrow down to Include files, then tab to New Line. Press your space bar and
type in something like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK r2\Include". Now tab
back to the VC++ files list and do the same with the Library and Source
subdirectories of your sdk directory tree, thus setting their paths internally
to the VC++ ide. Once you have done that, check to see if you have
successfully set the SDK's path. Go to the command prompt. CD to where your
setenv.bat is located. You'll hear the usual microsoft message. Type in
cl.exe -v. If you have set everything correctly, the version of your c++
compiler should be announced. You are now ready to go. Hope this tutorial
will help other new c++ programmers as well. Cheers!
----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Hardy
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:22 AM
Subject: Installing MS Win32 SDK.
Hi all - For some time now I've been trying to get the Microsoft SDK to
install correctly. Everything seems to be there - all the include files,
libraries, and NMAKE include files - and, to the best of my knowledge, all of
the environment variables are set correctly (using the supplied setenv.cmd).
However, any time I try to compile something, even one of its 'samples', it
stops with an error telling me that certain files can't be found.
For example, entering NMAKE in the directory \Samples\Begin\Simple produces
the following output.--
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003
R2\Samples\Begin
\Simple>nmake
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved.
cl -c -DCRTAPI1=_cdecl -DCRTAPI2=_cdecl -nologo -GS -D_X86_=1 -DWIN32 -
D_WIN32 -W3 -D_WINNT -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0500 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 -DWINVER=0x0500
-D_MT -MTd /WX /Fo"WIN2000_DEBUG\\" /Fd"WIN2000_DEBUG\\" simple.c
simple.c
simple.c(12) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdio.h': No
such f
ile or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
All of these directory trees have me stumped, I'm afraid. I'd love
suggestions, even if they are things like, Use the .NET SDK instead.
Many thanks,
Graham.
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