427968 - Additionally document to build Firefox with VC++ 2005 Express Edition is needed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Masahiro YAMADA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: 

See Bug 427765.
VC++2005 Express Edition does NOT contains ATL header files.
And, Windows Vista SDK does NOT contains ATL header files.
But, some sourece files requires atlbase.h

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/search?string=atlbase.h
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=atlbase.h

It is needed to write how to get ATL header files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

So even just making those changes manually isn't enough for me to build; I find I'm also running into the problem of missing oleacc.idl:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1251683&SiteID=1

Not sure what else needs to be done about that.

Comment 2

[Masahiro YAMADA]

(In reply to comment #1)
> So even just making those changes manually isn't enough for me to build; I find
> I'm also running into the problem of missing oleacc.idl:
> 
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1251683&SiteID=1
> 
> Not sure what else needs to be done about that.
> 
Found: "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003" at Include\OlcAcc.idl
Not Found: "Windows Vista SDK".

Comment 3

[Kent James (:rkent)]

SDK version 6.1 "Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5" has Include\OleAcc.idl

Comment 4

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

though if you use that you won't get mozbuild to find our SDK, you'll need to edit guess-msvc.bat/start-msvc.bat to locate the 6.1 SDK. :(

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I think there's a patch somewhere in bugzilla to add SDK 6.1 detection. We should get that landed. (Still won't help until we release another version.)

Comment 6

[Masahiro YAMADA]

Additionally, midl.exe is not exist in both of VC++ 2005 Express Edition and Windows Vista SDK.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

midl.exe exists in my copy of the Windows Vista SDK:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\Midl.exe

Comment 8

[Masahiro YAMADA]

(In reply to comment #7)
> midl.exe exists in my copy of the Windows Vista SDK:
> 
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\Midl.exe
> 

Sorry, Comment #6 is my mistake.
 I did not install "Win32 Development Tools" of WIndows Vista SDK, and midl.exe is contained in it.

Comment 9

[Kent James (:rkent)]

In response to comment 5: I filed bug 428526 with a corrected guess-msvc.bat to detect version 6.1 of the SDK.

Comment 10

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Please update http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/atlbase.h as well to cover the issue there. Also accessibility module doesn't require atl any more, please fix that too. Or should I file separate bug for this?

Comment 11

[Masahiro YAMADA]

Now Mozillabuild 1.3 is already released, and it contains patches in bug 427765.
I think, now, MDC contains enough document for VC++ 2005 Express.
Thank you.

-> FIXED