On Thu, 28 May 2009, Sisyphus wrote: "Jan Dubois" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Or ... have I misinterpreted what I'm seeing there ? (Perhaps the >>> "continue" link still leads to the installation of the SDK 2003 ?) >> >> Indeed, the "Continue" button is exactly what you have to press. It >> does its usual Windows Genuine Advantage verification and then lets >> you install the SDK, > > That's good to know - thanks, Jan. Sorry for the confusion. > > I've installed the SDK 2008. I have an AMD64 processor and Windows > Vista64 SP1, so I ran: > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin\setenv" /Release /ia64 /2008 > > That tells me: > The IA64 compilers are not currently installed. > Please go to Add/Remove Programs to update your installation.
IA64 is the Itanium Architecture, which is not a common platform for Windows. > If I specify /x64 as the second switch I get the same message, except > s/IA64/x64/. And if I specify either /x86 or /vista, then it's the x86 > compilers that are reported as missing. > > Runing 'cl /?' reports that 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or > external command, operable program or batch file. > Where are these compilers supposed to be ? (I would've thought in separate > folders under "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin", but there > are no folders in that directory.) > > I can find Add/Remove Programs in the control panel on XP, but not on Vista > (using "Classic View" of the control panel). > And is going to "Add/Remove Programs" really going to help ? > > I'll continue looking - and maybe even try installing again. In the > meantime, any help appreciated. I think you have to run the web installer again, and then make sure you *do* select the AMD64/x64 tools. I think by default it only installs the 32-bit x86 tools, and it doesn't include the C compiler (you have to install VS Express edition to get the free 32-bit compiler). Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
