[Cppunit-devel] Building with Windows 2003 DDK [PATCH]

[Allen U. <All...@ve...>]

Attached is a patch for building cppunit with the latest Windows 2003 DDK
(version 3790). The DDK is nice in that it contains all of the compilers,
headers and libs required to build Windows drivers and user mode apps. The
DDK can be downloaded if you have an MSDN subscription and you can order it
for shipping and media costs.

No need to buy or install Visual Studio.

Once you have the DDK installed just open a 'build window'
(Programs->Development Kits->Windows DDK 3790->Build Environments->Windows
2000->Windows 2000 Free Build Environment)

Then set an environment variable named CPPUNIT_ROOT to the root of your
cppunit checkout. Now you can run 'build' to build the tree. There are some
aliases for build like 'bcz' that will do a clean build without dependency
checking.

Currently the files are only setup to build the cppunit.lib (this is all we
use) but adding dirs and sources files could be done to build the rest of
the tree.

The only annoying thing about using the DDK is that you need to have a
template makefile in each directory where you are going to compile
something. This would conflict with the Makefile created by autoconf if you
were trying to build this on unix. For us that isn't a problem as we use Jam
not make for unix builds.

-allen