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February 23, 2009
First attempts to bring up VS 2008 Express on project and solution files generated by SCons (with Tracy's additions) have been somewhat bizarre: VS claims it needs to convert them. It makes a new solution file and leaves the project file alone. However, if I exit and restart, it doesn't like the solution file it just made and claims the project file has syntax problems! I'm in the process of installing VS 2008 Professional, in hopes that it will behave better, and also because Professional is the real target environment, not Express.
February 12, 2009
Can now build and run with 9.0. Link problem for debug was solved by specifying compile flag /MDd rather than /MD (thanks, Heather, for the hint). The inability to run was because manifest files created by the 9.0 linker were not getting installed. When I copied them to the proper place, all was well. Navid found mention of a variable WINDOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST in the SCons documentation which, when set to 'true', causes the manifest files to be installed automatically.
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