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12.5 Edit your vsvars
and change the property:
AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib"
To read:
AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib"
The notes go on to show how to build a mswin32 application which you can try if you like - I’m not
going to recover that here.
12.5 Edit your vsvars
Backup your vsvars32.bat file in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools
and replace it with this one:
@SET VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8
@SET VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC
@SET FrameworkDir=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework
@SET FrameworkVersion=v2.0.50727
@SET FrameworkSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0
@if "%VSINSTALLDIR%"=="" goto error_no_VSINSTALLDIR
@if "%VCINSTALLDIR%"=="" goto error_no_VCINSTALLDIR
@echo Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools.
@rem
@rem Root of Visual Studio IDE installed files.
@rem
@set DevEnvDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
@set PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN;\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools;\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;\
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