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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:28:31+00:00

Today is officially my first day with C++ :P I’ve downloaded Visual C++ 2005

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Today is officially my first day with C++ 😛

I’ve downloaded Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 SP1, because I want to get my hands on the open source Enso Project.

So, after installing scons I went to the console and tried to compile it using scons, but I got this error: 

C:\oreyes\apps\enso\enso-read-only\src\platform\win32\Include\WinSdk.h(64) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'Windows.h': No such file or directory scons: *** [src\platform\win32\InputManager\AsyncEventProcessorRegistry.obj] Error 2 scons: building terminated because of errors.

After checking these links:

VS ans PSDK

Include tiffi.h

Wndows.h

I’ve managed to configure my installation like this:

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And even run this script

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And I managed to compile the file below in the IDE.

// Test.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. //  #include 'stdafx.h' #include <Windows.h>   int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {     return 0; }

But I still get that exception in the console. Does anyone have scons experience?

EDIT

Actually (and I forgot to tell you this) I started the command prompt with the link ‘Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt’.

I assume this will include the paths in environment variables. Well after printing them I find that it didn’t:

 echo %INCLUDE%  echo %LIB%  echo %PATH%

And they were not present, so I created this .bat file:

set PATH=%PATH%;'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin' set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;'C:\ Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include' set LIB=%LIB%;'C:\ Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib'

Still, scons seeems not to take the vars… 🙁

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  1. Using the above recommendations will not work with scons: scons does not import the user environment (PATH and other variables). The fundamental problem is that scons does not handle recent versions of SDKs/VS .

    I am an occasional contributor to scons, and am working on this feature ATM. Hopefully, it will be included soon in scons, but the feature is much harder to implement reliably than I first expected, partly because every sdk/compiler combination is different (and sometimes even MS does not get it right, some of their .bat files are broken), so I can’t give you a date. I hope it will be included in 1.2 (to be released in approximatively one month).

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