Visual Studio 8 command line C++ compiler and linker.
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What works
The compiler just seems to work. I've tested compilation of some C and C++ files and they work fine. They only thing needed was copying the Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 8/VC/ subdirs: bin, include and lib.
And Executing it through a little script made it easier:
#!/bin/sh
wine "c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/bin/cl.exe" /I"c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/include" $@ /link /LIBPATH:"c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/lib"
What does not
I tried to get it working from the mounted Windows partition but this failed as it couldn't find various files.
What was not tested
I haven't tried installing Visual Studio through the actual installer as I had seen bad reports about this and furthermore, because it occupies way to much space. And finally, because I only want to use it on the commandline (and maybe integrated in buildscripts).
Additional Comments
As the C++ compiler and linker seem to be working perfectly without actual modifications, I frankly would prefered to have given it a higher rating. But, as I haven't tried the installer and I haven't tried all the tools yet, I have tried to temper my enthousiasm a bit :)
Still, I hadn't expected this to work, reading the other's reports.
/home/yourlogin/.wine is not owned by you / (Permission denied)
Never run wine as root (su, sudo)! Wine doesn't require to be run as root!
You will screw your WINEPREFIX and possibly other thiÂngs up. If you have run Wine as root you need to:
$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wineÂ
and then run winecfg to set Wine folder structure back uÂp. If you used winetricks script as root you might also need to:
$ sudo rm -rf ~/winetrickscache
Again: Just run wine as regular user and all should be fine.Â
HOWTO
ÂMake sure you operate on a clean WINEPREFIX (~/.wine)!
Download the full PSDK into temp folder as follows:
$ for ((i=1; i<=10; i++)) ; do wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/2600.2180/FULL/PSDK-FULL.$i.cab ; done
$ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/2600.2180/FULL/PSDK-FULL.bat
$ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/2600.2180/FULL/Extract.exe
Run the supplied batch file to extract all cabinets to temp PSDK install folder:
Â$ wine start.exe PSDK-FULL.bat "C:\psdktemp"
Execute the installer from "C:\psdktemp" folder
$ wine ./setup.exeÂ
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Installing components action takes a considerable time (consuming 100% CPU)
This is bug 14168. The installer takes a considerable when the Installing components action is processed on install page. Depending on machine speed it takes 5-10 minutes until it really
begins to copy files.
Wine's msi component executes large
table joins which causes this performance hit (CPU usage 100% for long time). Just be patient.
