Re: Can't install SDK by Dean
Dean
Wed Mar 08 15:17:09 CST 2006
The freely available support is right here, you'll need to be the judge.
Doing google searches of these groups can tell you a lot. There is a lot of
activity on the newsgoups, and the MS folks also join in. However, there is
no guarantee you'll get an answer here. I, for one, didn't answer your
build.exe question because I didn't know the answer and didn't take the time
to try and research it.
There is paid support available from various third parties including
BSquare. Depending on what the problem is, this can be pretty useful. If
it's a problem deep within the tools that we have no visibility into, then
we might not be able to help. Another option for those with $$$ is to get a
support contract directly with Microsoft. Both of these options will get
you better responsiveness, and people working on your issues.
--
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
BSQUARE Corporation
"elpeon" <elpeon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EC9B7CCF-FC9B-4329-AB4C-1E5759843C52@microsoft.com...
> Whoops, I had neglected to apply SP4 to eMbedded VC++. I retried the SDK
> install and it ran fine after SP4 was applied. Who'd a thunk it. Must be
> looking for registry settings or something. By the way, Dean, I've had
> another issue that never got resolved - do you know if there is any doc
> about
> BUILD.EXE errors - the BUILD.EXE of PlatformBuilder? I'm evaluating WinCE
> at
> this point, and so I don't just want to fix problems, I want to evaluate
> if
> sufficient support is available to diagnose problems that come up. My
> great
> fear is having some problem crop up in the middle of a big project and not
> having any way to track it down. We're looking at putting a high
> performance
> graphics app on this hardware and we've got to be able to know exactly
> what's
> going on in there. Will I basically need to buy some support from
> somebody,
> or is info freely available?
>
> "Dean Ramsier" wrote:
>
>> Backup, what are you actually trying to do? You should only be using
>> Platform Builder if you are building the operating system for a
>> particular
>> device. For application development, you should be using either Visual
>> Studio or Embedded Visual C++ (make sure you have the latest Service Pack
>> installed, I think it's SP4).
>>
>> If you are trying to write applications, you need an SDK. That SDK needs
>> to
>> be provided by whoever created the OS image. You shouldn't need to
>> generate
>> one yourself. If you can't get one, then it is possible to create one
>> yourself with Platform Builder, but you open yourself up to the risk that
>> your app won't run properly on the target.
>>
>> If you're building applications for WindowsMobile devices, the SDKs are
>> available from Microsoft.
>>
>> --
>> Dean Ramsier - eMVP
>> BSQUARE Corporation
>>
>>
>> "elpeon" <elpeon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:771053B1-33A8-4D5E-9BFE-0FDA57425ED7@microsoft.com...
>> > Ok, well, apparently if you go to the web page that the error message
>> > points
>> > to, and then hit cancel you can install the SDK anyway. So, I'll push
>> > on
>> > further...
>> >
>> > But boy, this sure doesn't inspire confidence...
>> >
>> > "elpeon" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ok, I first installed Platform Builder. Turns out you can only
>> >> compile
>> >> trivial applications with Platform Builder. So I installed eMbedded
>> >> Visual
>> >> C++ 4.0. Then I made a SDK from platform builder. When I try to
>> >> install
>> >> the
>> >> .msi file it tells me that "Software development tools required to use
>> >> this
>> >> SDK... are not installed...", and won't let the SDK install. So what
>> >> am
>> >> I
>> >> supposed to do now???
>> >>
>> >> I'm coming to this from a linux background and finding it absurdly
>> >> difficult. Has anyone else made this transition - can you offer some
>> >> help in
>> >> trying to grasp Microsoft's philosophy? My first impression is that I
>> >> haven't seen anything this sloppy since OS/2, but I'm trying to keep
>> >> an
>> >> open
>> >> mind.
>>
>>
>>