Re: [Chicken-users] CMake testing

[felix winkelmann]

On 10/22/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> I used the Chicken 2.2 tarball as a guinea pig, just adding
> CMakeLists.txt to it and no other actions.  When I use my fully licensed
> retail version of VC++ 7.1, 'cmake -G "NMake Makefiles"' generates its
> output without a hitch.  When I use the free VC++ Toolkit, I get a bunch
> of errors.  So, the problem is surely that the retail compiler has all
> sorts of tools and paths configured properly, and the free version
> doesn't.  Probably there is more work to get a valid build environment
> going with the free version.  I did run the appropriate vcvars32.bat
> with the free version, but that isn't enough to solve the problem.  I
> bet I don't have the Platform SDK set up properly to work with the free
> version; for instance, I don't see any includes or paths for it in the
> envioronment.  Also beware of the 'csi' shadowing gotcha, as the
> Platform SDK has its own csi.exe apparently.

Very good. Thanks, Brandon!

Do you have the full Platform SDK, or just the core part installed?


cheers,
felix