(This is more for my own notekeeping, but maybe it'll be of interest to somebody else.)
Sometimes it's nice to build a test with visual C++ on Windows without any makefiles or projects. You just have to get a command prompt that has run vcvars32.bat, e.g. by doing Start / All Programs / Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition / Visual Studio Tools / VS 2005 Command Prompt and then do e.g. cd wine-git\dlls\gdi32\tests cl -DSTANDALONE -D_X86_ -I../../../include pen.c gdi32.lib But for some reason today that didn't work for me; cl couldn't find gdi32.lib unless I gave an absolute path, which made no sense (since the same path was already in LIB). To try to track this down, I wrote a tiny batch file to reproduce everything: set PSDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK set VS8=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8 set LIB=%VS8%\VC\LIB;%VS8%\SDK\v2.0\lib;%PSDK%\Lib set INCLUDE=%VS8%\VC\INCLUDE;%PSDK%\Include set PATH=%VS8%\VC\BIN;%VS8%\Common7\IDE;%PATH% cd \dank\wine-git\dlls\gdi32\tests cl -DSTANDALONE -D_X86_ -I../../../include pen.c gdi32.lib Oddly enough, that worked fine. I dunno why the problem went away.
