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Building Syzygy

The Windows build environment invokes the VC++ tools from the command line, via GNU make and the Cygwin shell. If you haven't set up VC++ to run from the command line, compiling will fail. Possible error messages include not being able to find cl.exe (the compiler) and the linker not finding required dll's. Here are the settings for the environment variables include, lib, MSDevDir, and path that work with a standard install of Visual Studio 6.0.

  include
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\atl\include;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\include;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\include
  lib
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib
  MSDevDir
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98
  path
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin

The following work with a standard install of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. In Windows XP, it helps if these are "user variables" rather than "system variables", since the Cygwin shell inherits values from the former.

  include
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\INCLUDE;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\include
  lib
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\ATLMFC\Lib;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\Lib;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\Lib
  path
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\BIN;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools;
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin

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