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Bug 158867

Summary: MSVC needs various windows paths set in the enviornment.
Product: cnd Reporter: charlweed <charlweed>
Component: ToolchainAssignee: Alexander Simon <alexvsimon>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P4    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 160172    
Attachments: bash script to convert windows path to cygwin path
script to covert cygwin path to windows path
script to covert windows path to dos path

Description charlweed 2009-02-20 00:51:54 UTC 
Before running the tools in MSVC, the Microsoft supplied batch file 
vcvarsall.bat
needs to be run. This file is located in 

(INSTALL DIR)Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC

The batch file runs another batch file, which sets various windows paths. These values need to be in windows form, not
cygwin form.

It is not sufficient to call this batch file from a make file, because the values will not be exported into the make
shell, nor the cygwin environment.
Looking in the original batch file for Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0, I have identified:

PATH
WindowsSdkDir
VSINSTALLDIR
VCINSTALLDIR
FrameworkDir
FrameworkVersion
Framework35Version
INCLUDE
LIB
DevEnvDir
LIBPATH

One can set these values directly in the make environment, but care must be taken with the backslashes, spaces, and
semicolons of windows paths. At least some of them, 

I wrote a few bash scripts which I put into the nbproject directory, I'll attach them. I am using them like this:

WIN_PATH="Q:\\bin\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\IDE;Q:\\bin\\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\\VC\\BIN;Q:\\bin\\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\\Common7\\Tools;C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5;C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727;Q:\\bin\\Microsoft
Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\VCPackages;$(WindowsSdkDir)\\bin"

cygwin_path=$(shell nbproject/win_to_cygwin_path $(WIN_PATH))
export PATH:=$(cygwin_path):$(PATH)

At the moment, I have not verified that I have correctly integrated the variables above into both the cygwin and windows
environments.
Comment 1 charlweed 2009-02-20 00:53:40 UTC 
Created attachment 77178 [details]
bash script to convert windows path to cygwin path
Comment 2 charlweed 2009-02-20 00:54:21 UTC 
Created attachment 77179 [details]
script to covert cygwin path to windows path
Comment 3 charlweed 2009-02-20 00:54:49 UTC 
Created attachment 77180 [details]
script to covert windows path to dos path
Comment 4 charlweed 2009-02-20 00:58:38 UTC 
Related to issue 158866
Comment 5 charlweed 2009-03-24 20:26:00 UTC 
BTW, this is what I added to an unrelated Ant script to get the VS tools to run from an <exec></exec> task:
Visual Studio is on a separate drive, in "Q:\bin\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0". The spaces in the path are a PAIN.

    <property name="VSINSTALLDIR" location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0"/>
    <property name="VCINSTALLDIR" location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC"/>
    <property name="FrameworkDir" location="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework"/>
    <property name="FrameworkVersion" value="v2.0.50727"/>
    <property name="Framework35Version" value="v3.5"/>
    <property name="WindowsSdkDir" location="c:\PROGRA~1\MI2578~1\Windows\v6.0A\"/>
    <property name="WIN_PATH_0" location="${WindowsSdkDir}\bin"/>
    <property name="INCLUDE_0"  location="${WindowsSdkDir}\include"/>
    <property name="LIB_0" location="${WindowsSdkDir}\lib"/>
    <property name="DevEnvDir" location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\Common7\IDE"/>
    <property name="INCLUDE" location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\INCLUDE;${INCLUDE_0}"/>
    <property name="LIB" location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\LIB;${LIB_0}"/>
    <property name="LIBPATH"
location="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\LIB"/>
    <property name="WIN_PATH"
location="Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\Common7\IDE;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\BIN;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\Common7\Tools;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;Q:\bin\MICROS~1.0\VC\VCPackages;${WIN_PATH_0}"/>
    <property name="PATH" location="${WIN_PATH};${env.Path};"/>

        <exec executable="${vs.tool.exe}" >
            <arg line="${vs.tool.argline}"/>
            <env key="VSINSTALLDIR" value="${VSINSTALLDIR}"/>
            <env key="VCINSTALLDIR" value="${VCINSTALLDIR}"/>
            <env key="FrameworkDir" value="${FrameworkDir}"/>
            <env key="FrameworkVersion" value="${FrameworkVersion}"/>
            <env key="Framework35Version" value="${Framework35Version}"/>
            <env key="WindowsSdkDir" value="${WindowsSdkDir}"/>
            <env key="INCLUDE" value="${INCLUDE}"/>
            <env key="LIB" value="${LIB}"/>
            <env key="DevEnvDir" value="${DevEnvDir}"/>
            <env key="LIBPATH" value="${LIBPATH}"/>
            <env key="PATH" path="${PATH}"/>
        </exec>