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[John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Adrian Wilkins wrote:
> So, as an exercise, I started a naked WinXP VM and proceeded to hack on
> making a build environment.
> 
> The wiki page is a little out of date ; there are newer versions of some
> things, it doesn't mention Python 2.6, etc.
> 
> My first session on this ends at the point where TBZR is demanding VS
> 2008 to build the shell extension. The questions that occur are
> 
>  * Could it be done with MinGW at all?
>  * Failing that, can it be done with the VS2008 Express distribution?
> 
> Tired now. Brain needs rest. Ug.
> 
> Below are my rather scrabbly notes
> 

Unfortunately no to both. It uses the ATL library to 'make it easy to
work with COM'. However, that library is not bundled with VS Express,
and the Microsoft Platform SDK only gives you ATL v3 or so.

John
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