Build in Visual Studio Express 2010 about libuv HOT 11 CLOSED

I agree, if at all possible we should target Express.

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It currently doesn't build in express because it doesn't build at all.

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I know.

I'm noting that I get a warning message that "Solution Items" are not supported. An there is grayed area in the sidebar.

I noting this before someone sinks eight hours into the perfect "Solution Items" configuration.

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VS express 2010 will be supported. If there are problems, you should indeed create a an issue.

Wrt. the "solution items", it's just a stale reference. I'll remove it in a minute.

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Thank you. If in the future there's a new issue, I'll reopen this issue so that we can keep the conversation in one place.

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I just cloned this, opened up a Visual Studio 2010 Express command prompt and typed "vcbuild.bat". It failed to build any of the three projects (main, test and benchmark) due to inability to find "stdint.h" for each.

d:\VCS\GIT\libuv-clone\include\uv.h(35): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or direc
tory [D:\VCS\GIT\libuv-clone\uv.sln]
...

I can get it to compile by making the following approximate addition in the three respective places, but it is clearly not the correct solution.

       'include_dirs': [ ...

•        'C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/include',
     ],
  

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Okay, this was because it generated VC2008 Express solutions and projects, which do not appear to have "stdint.h". Presumably if I can get it to use 2010 instead, it will just work.

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Hi what is the status of this exactly? I just cloned libuv and gyp generates vs2008 project files for me still. I have both vs2008 ultimate and 2010 ultimate installed. Is there a way to tell gyp to generate vs2010 project files?

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I figured out this is a gyp issue. I am posting here for other unfortunate souls who stumble upon the same issue:

If multiple versions of Visual Studio are installed, gyp picks 2008 first, then 2005, then 2010 (as of time of this writing):

http://code.google.com/p/gyp/source/browse/trunk/pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py#207

To force gyp to generate VS 2010 projects, the easiest way is to set the GYP_MSVS_VERSION environment variable to 2010.

http://code.google.com/p/gyp/source/browse/trunk/pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py#245

Cheers,
-Nikolay

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The Nikolay post was really helpfull, thanks.
For others that stumble on this add this:
set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2010
in the first lines of vcbuild.bat

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Fixed on #504

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