Is there any way to get the <cl/> and <link/> tasks to work without having Visual Studio environment variables setup (i.e. the PATH variable)? The .NET tasks detect the correct location to run from, but the C++ tasks don’t. Is there anything I can do in Nant.exe.config to help this along? I tried this (in the .NET 1.1 framwork section), but it doesn’t work:
<readregistry
property="vsDevInstallDir"
key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\InstallDir"
hive="LocalMachine" />
…
<task name="cl">
<attribute name="exename">${path::combine(vsDevInstallDir, '../../vc7/bin/cl.exe')}</attribute>
</task>
<task name="link">
<attribute name="exename">${path::combine(vsDevInstallDir, '../../vc7/bin/link.exe')}</attribute>
</task>
