[dcplusplus-devel] Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition causes scons error

[David G. <c0...@cs...>]

I've noticed that using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition causes scons to 
fail. On my machine at least. Caught me by surprise.

Removing the key (in CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio 
something) in the registry remedies the problem.

C:\dcpptrunk>scons tools=mingw
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 37: 
ordinal
  not in range(128):
   File "C:\dcpptrunk\SConstruct",
  line 77:
     Help(opts.GenerateHelpText(env))
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", 
line 581:
     env = self.factory()
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Script\SConscript.py", 
line 561:
     default_env = SCons.Defaults.DefaultEnvironment()
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Defaults.py", line 66:
     _default_env = apply(SCons.Environment.Environment, args, kw)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Environment.py", line 794:
     apply_tools(self, tools, toolpath)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Environment.py", line 137:
     env.Tool(tool)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Environment.py", line 1340:
     tool(self)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 157:
     apply(self.generate, ( env, ) + args, kw)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\default.py", line 41:
     SCons.Tool.Tool(t)(env)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 157:
     apply(self.generate, ( env, ) + args, kw)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\mslink.py", line 200:
     include_path, lib_path, exe_path = 
SCons.Tool.msvc.get_msvc_paths(env,versio
n)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\msvc.py", line 564:
     include_path = get_msvc_path(env, "include", version)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\msvc.py", line 349:
     return _get_msvc8_path(path, str(version_num), platform, suite)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\msvc.py", line 291:
     dirs = _parse_msvc8_overrides(version, platform, suite)
   File "C:\Program\Python25\scons-0.97\SCons\Tool\msvc.py", line 194:
     settings_path = settings_path.replace(r'%' + env_var + r'%', 
env_vars[env_va
r])