setup VC8 for CE:

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- VC8 doesn't have any setup batchfiles that prepare the environment for compiling

with CE. You can take those from eVC4 and adapt them or write your own. This snippet

should get you going:

  rem you need to adapt at least these three

  set OSVERSION=WCE500

  set PLATFORM=MY_OWN_PLATFORM

  set TARGETCPU=MIPSII

  rem the compiler is always cl.exe, different compilers are in different paths

  set CC=cl.exe

  rem obviously, these need to be adjusted to where you installed VS2005 and the SDKs

  set VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8

  set SDKROOT=C:\Programme\Windows CE Tools

  set PATH=%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\bin\x86_mips;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\bin;%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\IDE;%PATH%

  set PLATFORMROOT=%SDKROOT%\%OSVERSION%\%PLATFORM%

  rem add libs and includes from the SDK

  set INCLUDE=%PLATFORMROOT%\include\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\MFC\include;%PLATFORMROOT%\ATL\include

  set LIB=%PLATFORMROOT%\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\MFC\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\ATL\lib\%TARGETCPU%

  rem add libs that came with VC8

  rem Note: there are more libs and includes under ce\atlmfc, not sure if these are needed.

  set LIB=%LIB%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\lib\%TARGETCPU%

- The snippet below can be used to build STLport for Pocket PC 2003 (using the

  Pocket PC 2003 SDK shipped with Visual Studio 2005, this is the SDK used when

  compiling programs from within the IDE):

  set OSVERSION=WCE420

  set PLATFORM=POCKET PC 2003

  set TARGETCPU=ARMV4

  rem the compiler is always cl.exe, different compilers are in different paths

  set CC=cl.exe

  rem obviously, these need to be adjusted to where you installed VS2005

  set VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8

  set SDKROOT=%VSINSTALLDIR%\SmartDevices\SDK

  set PATH=%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\bin\x86_arm;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\bin;%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\IDE;%PATH%

  set PLATFORMROOT=%SDKROOT%\PocketPC2003

  rem add libs and includes from the SDK

  set INCLUDE=%PLATFORMROOT%\include

  set LIB=%PLATFORMROOT%\lib\%TARGETCPU%

  rem add libs that came with VC8

  set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\atlmfc\include

  set LIB=%LIB%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\atlmfc\lib\%TARGETCPU%

You should now be able to run cl.exe for the target you expected.

- The cross compilers of VC8 are the same version as for the native target, i.e. MSC14.

- The cross compiler for MIPS has the same bug as mentioned in doc/README.evc4 and

the same workaround applies. However, using 'whole program optimization', it results

in an error in the link phase.

- In order for STLport to recognize which target you are compiling for, you need to have

some macros defined, e.g. for the target architecture. The compilers do that partially on

their own, but not sufficiently. Therefore, STLport requires these defines:

 -- These are generally set for CE:

  _UNICODE;UNICODE;_WIN32;WIN32;UNDER_CE;WINCE;

 -- This one uses an environment variable to set the CE version:

  _WIN32_WCE=$(CEVER);

 -- These are used to help STLport recognise the target architecture:

  $(ARCHFAM);$(_ARCHFAM_);$(INSTRUCTIONSET)

 Note that the instructionset is not strictly needed for x86 but definitely for ARM. It

 doesn't hurt for x86 though, so I'd always set these in any new project.

 -- For release builds:

  NDEBUG;

 -- For debug builds:

  DEBUG;_DEBUG;

 -- For debug builds with additional STLport diagnostics:

  DEBUG;_DEBUG;_STLP_DEBUG;

 -- For MFC applications:

  _AFXDLL;

- Further settings:

 Code generation: Multithreaded [Debug] DLL

 Language: enable RTTI

 Optimization: maximise speed and enable whole program optimization for release builds

- Linker settings:

 Ignore specific libraries: libc.lib;libcd.lib

 Commandline: /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWSCE

 Optimisation: /LTCG for release builds

- Resource compiler:

 Define: UNDER_CE;WINCE;_WIN32_WCE=$(CEVER)