Re: Problem building trunk on Windows

Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> It could be related to that. Even though I have the SDK installed, I
>> recall I had problems where I had to make the VC98 version come before
>> it in my LIB path to do a clean build. I just tried commenting that
>> out, so that the SDK path comes first. I still get an error, but now
>> it is a new error:
>>
>> Performing Custom Build Step on ..\..\..\build\generator\extractor.py
>> Compiling resources...
>> Compiling...
>> empty.c
>> Linking...
>> .\libsvn_subr.def : warning LNK4087: CONSTANT keyword is obsolete; use DATA
>> Creating library ..\..\..\Release\subversion\libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.lib an
>> d object ..\..\..\Release\subversion\libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.exp
>> uuid.lib(mlang_i.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt; reco
>> mpile module
>> Error executing link.exe.
>>
>> So I suspect that the VC98 SDK includes the crypt32.lib but has an
>> older version without those symbols in it. I will try to Google
>> around about this latest problem with uuid.lib.
>
> This looks telling:
>
> http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VC/microsoft.public.vc.atl/2005-08/msg00265.html
>
> It sounds like the latest SDK's do not work with MSVC 6. Crap. I
> wonder how I will ever get my hands on an old SDK if this is true?
>

The latest SDK that still works with VC6 is the one from february 2003
[1]. All later SDKs won't work anymore with VC6.

But why are you still using VC6? The VCExpress [2] is free and has the
latest compiler which works with the latest SDK without any problems.

Stefan

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/

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