STLPort and the EOCP: Visual Studio

[ home ] [ overview ] [ developers ] [ about escher ]

Visual Studio 6.0, sp5

Using the Cygwin environment

Open up a cygwin shell, and type the following commands:

make -f cygwin-vc6.mak depend
make -f cygwin-vc6.mak install

I have not tried this yet, since I got it to work from DOS...any feedback appreciated. :)

From a DOS Command prompt

The build is done from the command prompt, using the distributed .mak files from STLPort. Prior to running the build, it is necessary to load the library and include files which Visual Studio's compiler (cl.exe) requires. This is done by executing a batch file. After that, the appropriate make commands are issued. If you did the default installation of Visual Studio, your commands will look something like this:

C:\WINDOWS>cd \cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort>cd build

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build>cd lib

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT"
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual C++ tools.
C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>nmake -f nmake-vc6.mak clean

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.9782.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.


C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>nmake -f nmake-vc6.mak install

At this point, you will see the installation process go by. To save this to a file, append "> buildstl.log" (or your choice of names) to the last command.

Once the files are installed, it is necessary to add the necessary include, library, and executable paths to Visual Studio. Replacing the above path of C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\ with %OCP_HOME%, those paths are:

Include: %OCP_HOME%\src\vendors\STLPort\stlport
Library: %OCP_HOME%\src\vendors\STLPort\lib
Executable: %OCP_HOME%\src\vendors\STLPort\bin

It is important to set the new directories ABOVE those of the default compiler. Failure to do this will result in embarrassingly simple-to-fix compiler errors which will probably stump you. :)

Correct path specification using Tools->Options		Incorrect path specification using Tools->Options

In addition, it may be necessary to move the runtime libraries (dll's) in the 'bin' directory to the %windows%\System32 folder, should the DLL's not be in the path. Yes, it makes me feel dirty...

Visual Studio .NET (7.1)

Similar to above, but with different methods to set paths, and using the nmake-vc71.mak makefile.

From a DOS Command Prompt

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS>cd \cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>"\Program Files\Mi
crosoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat"

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>"C:\Program Files\
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 tools.
(If you have another version of Visual Studio or Visual C++ installed and wish
to use its tools from the command line, run vcvars32.bat for that version.)

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>nmake -f nmake-vc7
1.mak install > buildstl.log

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.10.3077
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.


C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>notepad buildstl.log

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>dir ..\..\lib
 Volume in drive C is IBM_PRELOAD
 Volume Serial Number is E4C5-D0AF

 Directory of C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\lib

01/07/2006  01:59 PM            .
01/07/2006  01:59 PM            ..
01/07/2006  01:57 PM           705,754 stlport.5.0.exp
01/07/2006  01:57 PM         1,165,142 stlport.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:57 PM           705,759 stlportd.5.0.exp
01/07/2006  01:57 PM         1,167,284 stlportd.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:58 PM         7,979,152 stlportd_static.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:58 PM           503,808 stlportd_static.5.0.pdb
01/07/2006  01:58 PM           868,629 stlportstld.5.0.exp
01/07/2006  01:58 PM         1,447,452 stlportstld.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:59 PM        10,609,126 stlportstld_static.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:59 PM           618,496 stlportstld_static.5.0.pdb
01/07/2006  01:58 PM         8,172,572 stlport_static.5.0.lib
01/07/2006  01:58 PM           503,808 stlport_static.5.0.pdb
              12 File(s)     34,446,982 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  17,286,717,440 bytes free

C:\cygwin\usr\local\escher\EOCP\src\vendors\STLPort\build\lib>