Building win32tools and libraries on a windows platform

[Bo Helleskov]

I've just managed to build it all on windows, still
dont know what went wrong the first few times. 
I know have .lib files, so i can link against them at
build time.

And the .MAK files worked perfectly.

Thanks,
Bo



Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> wrote in message news:<bnaj5e$2ruo$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> At 09:49 AM 10/23/03, Bo Helleskov wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have been trying for some days now to get the win32tools to=20
> >build on windows to get some libraries to link against. But the=20
> >build process keeps failing. I've read all the documents i can find.
> >
> >So my question is: has any body build the win32tools using the
> >"Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 .NET" ?=20
> >
> >Because in every post i read they all write about "Visual Studio 6"=20
> >plus service packs. I could of course install my old VS 6 again, but
> >then i want to be sure that will built it.
> >
> >Any help ?
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >Bo
> 
> If you are talking about the BIND 8 builds, I believe that there are .mak files
> for most of the pieces and you can just run those directly even using VS.Net.
> It's certainly true of BIND 9. Do you need to build your own instead of using
> the binaries available from ISC? win32tools is just a subset of the full BIND 8
> build. BIND 9 binaries comes with all of the tools that are available on Unix.
> We never bothered creating a subset of the kit with just the tools.
> 
> Danny