User-define environment variables or user-defined macros are important in Visual C when we want to share certain properties across projects in a solution or even across solutions. For example, a library set, such as ITK, may consist of multiple libraries. If many projects in a solution need to use them, we may need to repetitively specify include paths and libraries to these projects. This is error prone and time consuming. Moreover, if we want to upgrade the library or just change the library folder, without using a user-defined environment variable, we will need to repeat the whole things.
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Configure environment variables You can use the grid to specify values for environment variables. These environment variables will be set when you start your application in Visual Studio for Mac. Overview; CMake; Windows: Visual Studio; Mac: Xcode or Terminal; OpenSim. Instructions here to add C:OpenSim 4.xbin to your PATH environment variable.
If we create a macro, such as ITKINC, that specifies include paths to ITK library headers, we then can just refer to $(ITKINC) in the include directory. Any change to the variable will be adopted by referring projects automatically. Consequently, the projects will be more organized and ready for changes.So, how to create such a macro?
First of all, we need a new property sheet, which can be created. This is illustrated by Figure 1. To make the solution even more organized, I suggest create a new project to specifically host this new property sheet. Because when we have many projects and need to locate this property sheet, we will have a hard time locate the property sheet if we create it in any random project.
Thus, creating a solution project called 'SolutionSettings' is recommended. Figure 4 Assign additional property to the user-defined macro. As for the next step, we have to use the macro. So, go back to the solution explorer tab and call up a property page of a project that is going to use the macro. The way we inherit the properties from another project is different between VS 2008 and 2010, as shown below.
It is worth noting that we can inherit property sheets across solutons, not only across projects.VS 2008Go to 'General' node and edit 'Inherited Project Property Sheets' by providing the path to the property sheet (Figure 5). The property sheet usually has extension.vsprops, for example SolutionProperties.vsprops. In my case, the path is.SolutionSettingsSolutionProperties.vsprops. Once the change is applied, the project can refer to the macro instantly by using the form $(macroname), mind the dollar sign and the parentheses-they are needed.VS 2010VS 2010 is more visual in this task. It is well described in and depicted in Figure 6.
Ia m in a situation where I need the appropriate Visual Studio environmentvariables to set in a cygwin shell for our build process. We use cygwin to build with cmake and Visual Studio. Doing things via msbuild is not an option because we havea mixed Ada and C/C environment.
Same goes for using the IDE.So, I ran a regular command shell and a Visual Studio command prompt (for x64 native development) and compared the environments. I see a bunch of differences, but I am not sure whichbeside PATH, INCLUDE and LIB are necessary. Probably the Windows Platform SDK paths are necessary. Not sure about.NET paths, as we are not using.NET.Can anyone give me a definitive list of what needs to be set to make sure the Visual Studio command line tools work within a cygwin environment? As far as I'm aware there is no documentation giving this kind of information.
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The only definitive list us developers get is the Visual C batch files. So the only answer I can give is really set the environment variables the same way the batchfiles do.This is a signature.
Any samples given are not meant to have error checking or show best practices. They are meant to just illustrate a point. I may also give inefficient code or introduce some problems to discourage copy/paste coding. This is becausethe major point of my posts is to aid in the learning process. As far as I'm aware there is no documentation giving this kind of information.
The only definitive list us developers get is the Visual C batch files. So the only answer I can give is really set the environment variables the same way the batchfiles do.This is a signature.
Any samples given are not meant to have error checking or show best practices. They are meant to just illustrate a point.
I may also give inefficient code or introduce some problems to discourage copy/paste coding. This is becausethe major point of my posts is to aid in the learning process. Hi Tom,Did you try the steps that Darran recommended to handle your issue?
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