[gdal-dev] Building with Visual Studio Express 2008

[Frank Warmerdam]

guillaume huby wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build GDAL 1.6.0 beta2  (same result with 1.5.3) with 
> Visual Studio Express 2008.
> 
> Everything went fine until I get this message :
> 
>     vb6_support.cpp(35) : fatal error C1083: Impossible to open include
>     file : 'atlbase.h' : No such file or directory 
> 
> 
> Looking on the web I fall on http://www.gdal.org/faq.html and "Can I 
> build GDAL with MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?".
> 
> But the Microsoft SDK no longer provides ATL stuff, thus this trick is 
> no longer valid.
> 
> Has anybody successed building GDAL with Visual Studio Express 2008 ?
> 
> Is ther some kown turnaround ?

Guillaume,

You need to alter MSVC_VER to be 1400 in gdal/nmake.opt.  Then the VB6 still
will be skipped.  Currently building the VB6 stuff with visual studio express.

I have made some updates to the FAQ to address this.  I note you ended up in
the old doxygen FAQ.  I have also deleted that since the official FAQ is now
the one in Trac which anyone can improve.

Best regards,
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