I reformatted the page and added a note about this issue. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Rryk<[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently downloaded source code for Google Chrome and it took me > several days to compile it. I used these instructions: > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows. > I would like to suggest a minor improvement. > > I experienced problems with SDK Visual Studio registration (it > crashed). As instructed, I ran "windowssdkver -version:v6.1 -legacy" > command in terminal and it seemed to run okay. I also read > troubleshooting part, but my mistake was not listed there. Finally, I > found out that SDK still was not registered with Visual Studio and > that became a source of problems. I found this out in one of the error > messages during compilation. It explicitly said that SDK cannot be > found. I followed instructions in the end of the page (manual > registration) and that solved all of the problems. > > So my suggestion is to add a notice to alternative instruction of SDK > registration as following: > If this program crashes, try running it from the command line > with: windowssdkver -version:v6.1 -legacy > If build fails, try registering SDK manually. See instructions > in the bottom of the page (troubleshooting section). > > Basically the problem was that my problem didn't fit description of > the troubleshooting part and as a result I did not execute step in > order to resolve an issue. Thanks. > > > >
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