MSSDK61 in windows-amd64 build

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

> Is there some reason you stay with v6.0A, rather than upgrading to
> $(_program_files)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/  ?

No reason. 6.0a is the SDK that comes with VS2008, and I didn't  
realize an upgrade is needed.

Max

On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Tim Bell wrote:

> Max (Weijun) Wang wrote:
>> Hi Kelly
>>
>> This is the first time I build windows-amd64 with Visual Studio 2008.
>>
>> At the freetypecheck stage, it cannot find the MSSDK61 path.  
>> According
>> to make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk, it's something like --
>>
>>    $(_program_files)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/
>>
>> but on my system there's only C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows
>> \v6.0A, and there's a WINDOWSSDKDIR env variable pointing to it.
>>
>> Is version 6.1 a must? I've manually point MSSDK61 to $WINDOWSSSDKDIR
>> and the build is running now.
>
> When using VS 2008, you can probably get away with any version 6.x  
> SDK.
>
> I see that jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk hunts around and
> makes a few guesses when looking for an SDK... but there is no
> ALT_PLATFORM_SDK (or equivalent) variable so you can override it.
>
> Is there some reason you stay with v6.0A, rather than upgrading to
> $(_program_files)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/  ?
>
> HTH-
>
> Tim