visual studio 6.0 problems

[jxxnorth]

I just did a standard visual studio 6.0 intall on a new dell laptop running xp home. I'm migrating from win 98.

I'm having 2 problems so far. I was using C/C++ IDE with the make file project option to cross compile with gcc. Now, when I open the project, the rebuild button on the tool bar is disabled, and when I press the "compile" button, I get the following error:

nmake is not recognized as an external command.

I tried to build a standard "Hello World" win32 command line app, but when I try to compile and execute ("!") I get:

error spawning cl.exe

Could anyone lend me a hand?

 

[Cagliostro]

you should put the full path nmake in the PATH system variable

Ion Filipski

 

[jxxnorth]

Sorry for my ignorance. Does that belong in the autoexec.bat file?

PATH = c:/.../nmake.exe

 

[jxxnorth]

Ok, I set the path in autoexec like so...

Set Path = (path to nmake)

restarted. Now I get an extra line in vc error output when executing the make file project:

'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Error executing c:\windows\sustem32\cmd.exe

 

[BlackDice]

go to your control panel->System, then go to the Advanced tab, then click Environment Variables, then in the System Variables listbox at the bottom of the tab, find PATH, and click edit to add the new path onto the end of the existing path

bdiamond

 

[jxxnorth]

Ok, I went to the system options in the control panel, edited the environment variable for 'Path' by adding:
...;c:/program files/microsoft visual studio/vc98/bin

Restarted. I get the same compile errors as listed above for both projects.

 

[jxxnorth]

I think I see the problem. When I look at the directories in Tools>Options>Directories, I see that it somehow decided to choose a path to the installation cd rather than the hard drive for the include, binary and lib files.

I'll try to locate and change these manually to see if it solves the problem.

 

[Cagliostro]

don't include executable name in the path, include only folder names.

Ion Filipski

 

[jxxnorth]

Thanks for all of your help. Changing the paths solved my problem.