On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:13:26 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Bunce) wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:49:35PM +0000, Andy Hassall wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:42:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Urlwin) wrote:
>> 
>>>>>Tim Bunce wrote:
>>>>>> If vcvars32.bat should always be run when using visual C (as I 
>>>>>> presume it should be in this case) then I'd love someone 
>>>>>> to post some 
>>>>>> code that detects when it should be run ($Config{cc} eq 'cl'?) but 
>>>>>> hasn't been (!$ENV{foo}) and gives an clear message about it.
>
>I'd like to be able to give a warning hint in this case. There are
>many such hints built in already and everyone has saved time for
>users, the mailing list, and myself.

 OK - revised patch attached - it's possibly a bit wordy, but I've tried to
cover why you need to run vcvars32.bat (to set LIB and INCLUDE) and where to
find it (vc98/bin or vc7/bin under the main Visual Studio install directory).

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