Chip, I will try to get a list of steps that works as well as missteps I make along the way. E.g. I don't know if the Community version of Visual Studio would work but I may try it on my desktop system once I get the laptop with the Express version running. So far, I have found the VCVarsAll.bat that Rick mentioned but haven't run it yet.
For those "old hands" that do this stuff all the time, please excuse the "noise" on this list :-). I'll try to keep the postings short and sweet. Gil B. On 9/13/2016 1:31 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > 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 > -- Gil Barmwater ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
