Re: [xml-cppdom-devel] Building cppdom 1.0.0 on win x64

[Doug M. <mc...@ia...>]

On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Patrick Hartling wrote:

> Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
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>>>>
>>>> For now I have hacked GetPlatform and GetArch to return the
>>>> appropriate values for win64 builds but I am running into another
>>>> problem. It appears that the EnvironmentBuilder is specifically
>>>> configured for MSVS 8 which causes problems when trying to build  
>>>> with
>>>> MSVS 9. Any thoughts on potential fixes? Can we use the default
>>>> behaviour of SCons 1.2.0 for MSVS builds and not support older
>>>> versions of SCons? Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, right, I forgot about that mess. Give the new SCons support a  
>>> try.
>>> If it works, the hacks for Win64 and Visual C++ 8.0 should be  
>>> removed.
>>> I don't see any reason to support older versions of SCons, but then
>>> again, I don't have the final say on that.
>>>
>>
>> Do you happen to know how build_env is initialized in the  
>> SConstruct? I
>> see it exported and used but it never appears to be configured.
>
> Is it part of the Variants stuff? If not, then I don't know.

I have something semi working with the latest point release of scons.  
Unfortunately, it seems like the variant stuff and the multiple  
environments floating around in sca is getting in the way of the new  
access to msvs in scons. I should have a more detailed report in a day  
or so.

Doug