240629 - Update Win32 Build Instructions for MSVC7.1

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Parenton]

The Win32 build page needs to be updated to reflect the libraries needed to
build with MSVC7.1.

Also, the wintools-dotnet.zip will only work on MSVC7.1 (Visual Studio .NET
2003) and not MSVC7 (Visual Studio .NET) because it includes the MSVC7.1 built
versions of libIDL and glib, so that should probably be taken into account when
updating the build page.

Comment 1

[Eric Murphy]

(Sorry, I posted in 215224 also by accident)

...

I just seen on Slashdot that Microsoft is now offering Microsoft Visual C++
Toolkit 2003 for free.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

This is worth documenting and linking to on the build documentation page.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Meanwhile, could someone clarify on the following points, and make them clear
when the website is updated. 

1) If you're using .NET 2003 and have unpacked wintools-dotnet.zip and set
MOZ_TOOLS to point to it, you don't need to download the glib and libIDL
tarballs and do the GLIB_PREFIX and LIBIDL_PREFIX stuff do you? 

2) Is there a wintools for .NET 2002? 

It would be nice to be able to have separate wintools directories for MSVS 6,
.NET 2002 and .NET 2003, and set up the environment to point to the right one. 

Comment 3

[Robert Parenton]

Page has been updated