project Boot won't compile

[Will]

Hi, thanks for your greate project.

I have a problem when building source code of VeraCrypt_1.0e on Windows 7 x64, my system configuration is the same as the one described in "Read Me.txt", except that I am using Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition instead of 2008. The build progress for Boot started and it did not stop(I waited a few hours). The build log is as follows:

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Build started 2014/10/29 17:07:09.
Project "D:\Work\VeraCrypt_1.0e\src\Boot\Windows\Boot.vcxproj" on node 2 (build target(s)).
Build:
md Release 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1

md Release_AES 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=AES

md Release_Serpent 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=SERPENT

md Release_Twofish 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=TWOFISH

md Rescue 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 RESCUE_DISK=1

md Rescue_AES 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=AES RESCUE_DISK=1

md Rescue_Serpent 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=SERPENT RESCUE_DISK=1

md Rescue_Twofish 2>NUL:
nmake.exe /nologo RELEASE=1 SINGLE_CIPHER=TWOFISH RESCUE_DISK=1
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 8.00c
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1993. All rights reserved.

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Do you know how can I solve this? Thank you very much!

[Mounir IDRASSI]

I have just done a build on a clean machine with Visual C++ 2010 Express and it all went OK.

Did you put nasm.exe and gzip.exe in your PATH? they are called by the Makefile.

The build of the bootloader is quick, it should take less than a minutes. Maybe your antivirus is having issue scanning 16-bit binaries generated by the boot compilation, you can try deactivating it.

[Will]

Thank you very much.