Changeset 28831

Timestamp:

2014-02-04T19:33:52+13:00 (10 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Adding mention of Visual Studio to the release-kit README, as this is necessary to compile wrapper.c of the release kit

File:

• other-projects/expeditee-release-kits/README.txt (modified) (4 diffs)

other-projects/expeditee-release-kits/README.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
 Preliminaries:
 
-A. One-off steps
 
 You will need to have installed:
@@ -7 +6 @@
 2. Ant
 3. JDK 1.8 for Expeditee
+(4. For the Windows release-kits, you will further need Microsoft Visual Studio.)
+
+
+
+A. One-off steps
 
 1. Check out the expeditee release kits:
@@ -33 +37 @@
 3. Set JAVA_HOME to JDK 1.8 and add JAVA_HOME\bin to the PATH
 
-4. Add your expeditee-release-kits\bin to the PATH. 
+4. If you're on Windows, run the vcvars.bat file of your Microsoft Visual Studio.
+
+My windows compile environment batch file looks like:
+    set ANT_HOME=C:\Research\apache-ant-1.8.2
+    set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0
+    PATH=C:\Research\ant\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;c:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;%PATH%
+
+    call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd"
+    call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
+
+(Microsoft SDK is necessary for the windows.h header I think. It may not be needed for the Expeditee release kits.)
+
+5. Add your expeditee-release-kits\bin to the PATH. 
 E.g. on Windows
     cd c:\Research\Nightly\tools\expeditee-release-kits\bin
@@ -44 +60 @@
 Jeremy's Linux under his jts21 account is what's used to generate the Linux binary.
 
-(5. If you have any file-locking issues, you may want to delete the contents of the snapshots\expeditee folder, all EXCEPT the rke-build.properties file)
+(6. If you have any file-locking issues, you may want to delete the contents of the snapshots\expeditee folder, all EXCEPT the rke-build.properties file)
 
 6. Go to your snapshots\expeditee folder and run "rke":