Gil, please document your steps so the rest of us superannuated canines can follow your lead.
-Chip- On 9/13/2016 9:18 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: > Gil, the C++ package has a batch file that will set a bunch of > environment variables and also add the needed directories to your > path. With the version I'm using, this is called VCVarsAll.bat. I'm > not sure what the bat file is named for the express version, but it > probably starts with VCVars. This batch file is also how you can > specify whether you wish to build your code as 32-bit or 64-bit. > > Rick > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Gil Barmwater > <gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu <mailto:gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu>> wrote: > > The recent RexxLA Symposium inspired me to start looking at > writing and > building external routines and methods in C++ and, eventually, > building > the ooRexx project from a checked-out copy on Source Forge. I decided > to start with the excellent presentation from last year's Symposium by > Rony so I downloaded his presentation, code and makefiles and reviewed > them enough to feel like I could attempt to get them to work. But I > needed a C++ package so, at Rene's suggestion at this year's > Symposium, > I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express (I chose not to > install > Community even though that was the link that Rene supplied). This > is a > huge package - 12GB - that took a long time to install but it > eventually > completed. > > Now I'm confused as to what to do next! Do I need to do anything in > Visual Studio to get the C++ tools - like NMAKE - installed? Typing > nmake (or cl even) at a command prompt gives me "'nmake' is not > recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or > batch > file." So clearly, the C++ tools are not in my path. > > Any help for this old dog trying to learn new tricks is greatly > appreciated! > > -- > > Gil Barmwater > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
