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March 16, 2009
Added some code to tool generateScript.py to write an additional file, _setup.bat, on Windows only. It sets up PATH variable so that Studio can usefully be run with the SCons-generated project files. _setup.bat needs more work; it doesn't yet establish other environment variables which _setup.vbs sets. (The problem with _setup.vbs is that it creates the new environment in a separate process, then exits before anything useful can be done with it.) _setup.bat must be created by the developer (not just imported as part of an install) because it contains absolute file paths.
March 12, 2009
Xerces provides a Visual Studio 8.0 binary build of version 2.8.0. We have been using 2.7.0, but 2.8.0 is supposed to be backwards compatible. I installed these binaries and they appear to work with Visual Studio 9.0. This means my development installation can be somewhat more realistic, with two packages (facilities and xmlBase), one of which truly depends on an external library (references its include files; needs to link to its library).
March 10, 2009
Addendum to March 9th entry: have confirmed that, when the PATH variable is augmented to include SCons lib directory, applications like test_Util.exe will run inside Studio.
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