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Asked: 2026-06-13T00:23:04+00:00

I am trying to build a cpp project. On the project resources section there

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I am trying to build a cpp project. On the project resources section there is a resource whose relative path is something like 

$(QPID_BUILD_ROOT)\src\windows\resources\org.apache.qpid.messaging.rc

Where am I suppose to define this variable ? I mean where does VS2010 read this variables value from ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    These are environment variables. You can set them for user only, or for the whole system. You also can set what you want “ad-hoc”, for example (assuming that your Visual Studio is installed in c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10 and that you want x86 build environment):

    1. Go to start
    2. Type cmd.exe

    3. At the command prompt:

      “c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10\VC\vcvarsall.bat” x86

    4. set QPID_BUILD_ROOT=[some path]

    5. Launch Visual Studio IDE: devenv
      In the Visual Studio IDE you can use a dropdown list (e.g. on one of the VC++ directories) and the click Edit. In the dialog window click Macros – this will show you all the variables (including the one set above) currently available to Visual Studio.

    Of course you don’t have to set entire build environment (as shown in 3), this step is only needed to be able to just type devenv instead of typing the whole path to devenv.exe in 5.

    Im assuming that you know how to set environment variables for user or the whole system and that you know that you need (at least) to lauch any application again (or even login/logout or reboot) in order for that application to inherit those new variables.

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