A follow-up question: Which version of VC++ Express & MS-Win Platform SDK are you using?
I too have a Win7 (Home Premium) machine, and would like to setup VC++ Express to build WebKit. Appreciate the help... Regards, ~Partha On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:57 PM, deforest sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Adam, > > As it turns out, seconds after hitting the send button I thought to check > that very thing: whether WTF.lib was part of this build chain and included > at a later step. That led me to the appropriate directory, the appropriate > buildlog, and the actual error. > > For anyone else interested: in turns out that the VC++ express binaries > (the linker, compiler, etc) respect ENV variables set in "Environment > Variables" under "Advanced System Settings" in Windows. > > The "build-webkit" script echos "/useenv" as an option to "VCExpress.exe", > which I don't really understand. I think that command line switch ignores > the VCExpress environment variables configured via > VCExpress->Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions. > > Is that correct? > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Adam Roben <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:44 PM, deforest sessoms wrote: >> >> I have receive the following error (buildfailed, JavaScriptCore): >> >> Performing Pre-Build Event... >> /usr/bin/bash >> Compiling... >> JSONObject.cpp >> Performing Pre-Link Event... >> Linking... >> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'WTF.lib' >> >> ... after I basically copied everything from my 2003 R2 SDK's "include" >> and "lib" directories into my : >> >> WEBKITLIBRARIESDIR = C:\cygwin\home\<cygwin >> user>\WebKit\WebKitLibraries\win >> >> The question is: I cant find the requisite library "WTF.lib" anywhere. >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> WTF.lib is built by WTF.vcproj, which should build before >> JavaScriptCore.vcproj as part of WebKit.sln (phew!). (build-webkit builds >> WebKit.sln, so should build things in the right order.) >> -Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-help mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help > > _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
