How can we verify wich compiler VS is using ? I have install the SDK7.1 but I'm not sure that VS2008 use it.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
The changes from 7.0 and 7.1 are largely to do with integration with VS2010. If you're running VS2008 then you should stick with the 7.0 SDK.
I'm running 7.0 here and there's an entry on my Start Menu called "Visual Studio Registration" which is used to set things like paths in VS such as the binaries/executables path, which is presumably how it finds cl.exe.
As a hackish way to find out: just compile something big and open Task Manager. When cl.exe launches view its properties and find out the image path. That should tell you.
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I have used the registration tool but it told me that vs2008 is not install. So I run the tool from the command line and it works. I will check cl.exe tomorow. Thanks.
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A less hackish way to do it:
std::cout << _MSC_FULL_VER << std::endl;
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_MSC_FULL_VER report 150030729 from within VS and 160030319 from the build environment.
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So basically VS 2008 is using its own compiler and the build env is using the VC 2010 compiler. Frankly I'm not even sure if VS 2008 can use a newer compiler. What you tipically need to "integrate" with Visual Studio are the SDK headers and libraries.
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MagicAndre1981
xperf addicted
run the Windows SDK Configuration Tool ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\WindowsSdkVer.exe") to set which version VS2008 should use.
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evildictaitor
Devil's advocate
Jan 18, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Dexter wrote
So basically VS 2008 is using its own compiler and the build env is using the VC 2010 compiler. Frankly I'm not even sure if VS 2008 can use a newer compiler. What you tipically need to "integrate" with Visual Studio are the SDK headers and libraries.
VS is using it's own compiler by default, but you can change it by right clicking on the project file in the solution and changing the build to a MAKEFILE build and copy-pasting the command line for your new compiler as the command line for the MAKEFILE to run.
Actually Microsoft does this a lot for their driver development and there's lots of help around for how to make VS use the WDK compiler rather than the VS compiler
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