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Michele Galante points out how to use two free VC++ downloads to supply all required command-line tools:
In a previous thread it was pointed out that the free MS VC++ toolkit was missing some important tools like "lib.exe", "nmake.exe", "cvtres.exe". I noticed that the Microsoft Platform SDK (also a free download, required if you want to build Windows applications with the free VC++ compiler) comes with a "bin\win64" subdirectory that provides tools for previewing the WIN64 platform. This directory contains compiler and linker for the IA64 processor, but there are also the lib/nmake/cvtres utilities and they work on WIN32. I have installed the "Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" and the "Microsoft Platform SDK February 2003" on my Windows XP system and did the following settings: set MSVC=[VC++ install dir] set MSSDK=[Platform SDK install dir] set INCLUDE=%MSVC%\include;%MSSDK%\include set LIB=%MSVC%\lib;%MSSDK%\lib set PATH=%MSVC%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin\win64;%PATH% Please note the PATH setting: "%MSSDK%\bin\win64" must be specified after "%MSVC%\bin" and "%MSSDK%\bin" so that only the missing WIN32 tools are searched in the WIN64 toolset. I then was able to build the wxWidgets 2.5.1 libraries, the "minimal" sample and the "life" demo with: nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=release SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static
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