Running Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 development tools on Windows XP

[UtillMasm]

 :U
very nice!

[drizz]

Ok people listen up :)

lessmsi is working!

I have downloaded the latest wix binaries from:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5217.0/

recompiled the project and adjusted it to use the newer wix assembly, fixed bugs and added code to handle external cabs.

try it out:
http://rapidshare.com/files/241961627/lessmsi_fixed.7z.html
MD5: 6F575624FBC010EBD352742500C76C15

Note that the tool extracts all cabs first then deletes the ones you didn't select, so for vs_setup you must have atleast 2,5GB free space.

Enjoy :boohoo:

[Vortex]

xdcmake.exe, a binary supplied with VS 2010 Beta 1 requires the installation of .NET Framework 4.0

[dedndave]

Visual C++ compiler for each source code file when source code is compiled with /doc and when the source code file contains documentation comments marked up with XML tags.

just don't do that  :bg

i bet vortex will write a xdcmake.exe that doesn't use .NET 4

[UtillMasm]

...
...you must have atleast 2,5GB free space.
...

:(

[Vortex]

Hi drizz,

Thanks for the tool. Your method based on extracting the binaries from archives is a good one.

[dedndave]

problem is i don't have a complete list of required files   :(
(hint hint Vortex - lol)

[Vortex]

Hi dedndave,

I already presented some hints.

[dedndave]

i know - in fact, you pretty much gave all of em
it is the include files and libraries i need listed
the msi/cab files do not tell which directory is targeted for different files
although, it is probably in an INI file or something
let me play with it a bit when i get some time
if i need help, i will PM ya

[Vortex]

A quick method by Japheth to extract Masm 10 from the installation package :

EXTRACT /L c:\temp cab16.cab FL_ml_exe*

Rename the extracted file to ml.exe

ML.EXE needs MSVCR100.DLL. This file is already extracted, look in the Setup subdirectory.

Thanks Japheth for your solution.

[remus2k]

Hi Thanks For this Info :U

I have compile with new ml and linker a masm code
Now have i see with the new compiler ist this exe bigger

Standart ml and linker from Masm32 package
3,00 KB (3.072 Bytes)

With v10.xxxx
3,50 KB (3.584 Bytes)

And this exe have a new section .reloc

what if better or newer by masm v10 from vs2010

[Vortex]

Hi remus2k,

You should use Pelle's Polink.exe to link the object files. It does not add automatically relocation sections and creates smaller executables. This powerful linker comes with Pelles C package and Masm32 installation :

Code Select Expand

\masm32\bin\polink.exe

[remus2k]

Hi vortex

Thanks for all this Information and examples

I have compiled without installed the studio
and have a error msvcr100.dll Fail.

Ok it gives two solution:

1. install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
2. or copy this files from vs2010 studio "msvcm100.dll , msvcp100.dll , msvcr100.dll" to the system32 folder

Then works fine :U