David Abrahams wrote:
you also need to have VS80COMNTOOLS set, as it is used by %VC80_ROOT%\vcvarsall.bat , and the Platform SDK\include directory should be *manually* added to %VS80COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat
Okay, I edited c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools/vsvars32.bat to do that. It's a big surprise to me that the SDK installer doesn't take care of that stuff for me.
<put my MVP hat on> Martyn do you think that documentation on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ could be updated to mention this file? We could then add reference there from http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/vc-8_0-tools.html . This info would be relevant to anyone wishing to build Win32 apps from the command line, not only boost users. <MVP hat off> We could update toolset description to mention it. B.