[Libreoffice] Registry keys for Windows compilation

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

I finally became curious enough to install cygwin (so I can do Windows builds too) and see if there is an easier way to locate the Visual C++ Express Edition (or Visual Studio VC++ compiler).  Yes indeed.

I could get the batch script of my previous example to run under cygwin, but it couldn't change anything in the cygwin bash environment.  So instead, I made a copy of the cygwin.bat script and added "CALL MyVC++.bat" at the beginning.

The bash absorbs the path (rewritten) and environment variables left by my batch script into its environment.

The attached PNG file, if it comes through, demonstrates the result.

The appropriate environment is now set up for the entire run of the build beneath cygwin.

This sort of hack seems like a much-more direct way of hooking up not only to VC++ but also incorporating the environment for an SDK and also the WinDDK ATL headers and libraries.  It all bootstraps off of the environment variables that the Microsoft Developer tools bootstrap off of.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm.org at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm.org at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Dennis E. Hamilton
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 13:02
To: 'Jesús Corrius'; 'julien2412'
Cc: libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] Registry keys for Windows compilation

I don't know how cygwin has access to environment variables from Windows, but there is a straightforward way to setup command-line execution of Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (and a similar variation for 2005 and 2010).

The enclosed batch file (as a .txt for attachment safety) works on win32 systems when setting up for native command-line execution.  Maybe it will be customizable for cygwin-hosted build operations too.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm.org at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm.org at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jesús Corrius
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 11:07
To: julien2412
Cc: libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] Registry keys for Windows compilation

> I'm on Windows Vista 32 and I use Cygwin 1.7 (last version installed today
> after having removing previous one with cclean for registry cleaning).
> Here are the directories for registry.
> - /proc/registry
> - /proc/registry32
> - /proc/registry64
> There's no subdirectory on VCExpress in any of these directories.

Can you try the "regedit" utility and see if you get the same results?

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