That will help many people! Nice find on that blog post! -- Mohamed Mansour
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:28 PM, cpu <c...@chromium.org> wrote: > > If you followed the instructions in chromium (http://dev.chromium.org/ > developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows) recently and chose to > use VS2008 then this will be of interest. > > The order was wrong, I just changed it. You need to install in the > following order: > > 1. VS2008 RTM > 2. Windows SDK 6.1 > 3. VS2008 SP1 > > If you followed the old instructions then you did step 3 before step > 2. This causes a problem because the SP1 upgrades files in the SDK. > The wrong order causes some un-versioned files to be overwritten to > their older versions. > > This might or might not cause an immediate problem, but surely a > problem will ensue at some point. > > My fix was to uninstall everything and re-install everything. I won't > lie to you, it was quite painful. > > See here for more info: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2009/08/07/windows-sdk-for-server-2008-v6-1-overwrites-vs2008-sp1-crt-files.aspx > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
