Procedure to install the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
First,
download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
The
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 includes the core tools developers need to
compile and link C++-based applications for Windows and the .NET Common
Language Runtime compiler, linker, libraries, and sample code.
Once the
Toolkit installed, you will need some more SDKs…
At the
right of the free Toolkit page, section Related downloads :
- Microsoft Windows Platform SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/
Selecting “Core
SDK” is sufficient :
Windows Server 2003 SDK
Core SDK
Follow
instructions until donwload / install is complete.
Still at
the right of the free Toolkit page, section Related downloads
:
- .NET Framework Software Development Kit :
The
Microsoft® .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) version 1.1 includes
everything developers need to write, build, test, and deploy .NET Framework
applications documentation, samples, and command-line tools and compilers. You
must install the .NET Framework Redistributable Package version 1.1 prior to
installing the .NET Framework SDK.
So you have
to install this package first :
.NET Framework Redistributable Package :
Then you
have to set correctly your Windows Environment variables :
Right-click
on “My Computer” icon, select “Properties” menu entry, the following dialog will
appear :
Select “Advanced”
tab, then “Environment Variables” button. The following dialog will show up :
If the
INCLUDE Environment variable doesn’t exist, click on the “New” button in User
variables, then add the INCLUDE variable as shown below :
If this
variable already exists, just edit it and be sure the following entries have
been set :
INCLUDE :
C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SDK\include
( adjust
paths according to the location where your Toolkit and SDKs have been installed
)
Then apply
the same method for LIB and PATH variables :
LIB :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SDK\Lib;%ROOTSYS%\lib
PATH :
%ROOTSYS%/bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Vc7\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin\Win64
Then you
have to add related path in cygwin’s .bash_profile:
export
PATH=$PATH:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\
C++\ Toolkit\ 2003/bin:/c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ C++\ Toolkit\
2003:/c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ .NET\
2003/Vc7/bin:/c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ SDK/Bin/Win64:/c/Program\
Files/Microsoft\ SDK/Bin
After to have downloaded and installed all these components, there is
one point remaining.
The msvcp71.dll
import library file msvcprt.lib is not included in the distribution.
So here are
the import library and the definition file :
For
advanced users, here is a tip to generate the correct lib file matching the msvcp71.dll
included in the distribution :
The command
“dumpbin /exports /OUT:msvcprt.def msvcp71.dll” generates
the file msvcprt.def. This file is not usable as is, please take a look at the provided
mscvprt.def file to see how it should look like.
Then the
command “lib /def:msvcprt.def” generate a usable
msvcprt.lib.
Related (interesting) downloads:
Ø
Debugging
Tools for Windows :
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
Ø
Code::Blocks :
Open source, cross platform C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
Working with the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003.
http://www.codeblocks.org/