Re: Building using VC++ 2005 Express

George Wieggers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been fiddling with build.bat, Microsoft SDK, vcvars.bat and some
> other files
> I downloaded MASM (also missing in VC 2005 express) from
> http://win32assembly.online.fr/download.html
> <http://win32assembly.online.fr/download.html>
>
> My Progress so far:
>
>
> Build FAILED.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1052: file ' neon.mak' not found

Why did it not find neon.mak? That file is versioned in ext\neon.

> javahl_java : error PRJ0021: Tool 'Linker', Property 'Output File'
> contains invalid file name.

You don't need to build the bindings - I don't do that either. It's
enough to build the pseudo project __ALL__ in the subversion solution.

> I'm very pleased so far, because several Subversion libraries and
> executables have been built succesfully by now (all using VC++ 2005
> express).
>
> It seems dat "msbuild" is definitely the replacement for devenv.
>
> There's one issue, the .sln files for VC 2005 are somewhat different. I
> had to manually alter a property from within the IDE, change it back and
> save "subversion_vcnet.sln" to get a correct .sln file. Once that was
> done, msbuild was able to compile a fairly large part of subversion.
> Only after subversion has been built correctly, I'm going on and try to
> get TortoiseSVN built correctly.

Did you generate the sln and the vcproj files or did you use the ones I
put in ext/build?

> I'll keep you guys posted....

Don't forget to write everything down so others can follow your steps!

Stefan

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