Unable to build examples in SDK, Toolset Version, and just getting going

Hi Viktor,

unfortunatley because your provided not many information, it's hard to guess what can be wrong.

Please read and follow this forum best practices, namely specify exactly what MicroStation and MicroStation version do you use, and also using what Windows.

Viktor_Kulik said:

so i modified the VCVarsQueryRegistry2017.mki

If you have to modify anything in .mki, something is likely wrong.

Viktor_Kulik said:

Can anyone help? 

No until you provide more information:

• What NET Frameworks are installed on your computer? ... there can be more and as was discovered, when original 4.6 is missing and only 4.6.2 is installed, using (only) the latest SDK an error is reported.
• What Visual Studio is installed.
• What SDK example did you try.

You should also create and analyze verbose output (build example using verbose option) and also attach it to this discussion as crucial source of information.

With regards,

  Jan

Jan,

My mistake, been reading many posts and and forgot to include all the details.

Microstation Connect

SDK Update 12, filename: mssdk10120043en_updt12.msi

I was editing the mki file as per your suggestion in another thread since I didn't have .net 4.6 installed and the .mki file is pointing to it explicitly. 

• What version (e.g. v10.x.y.z) of MicroStation, or other product, are you using?
• To repeat Jan's question, what version of Visual Studio have you installed?

Have you tried building the examples delivered with the SDK? 

1. Open the SDK command window
2. At the Windows prompt, key-in BuildAllExamples
3. After a while you should see evidence that all examples (both C++ and C#) have been built

Jan Šlegr said:

If you have to modify anything in .mki, something is likely wrong

Absolutely correct! Revert that .mki file to its orginal state.  Don't edit any other .mki file.  The only files you should edit are your own bmake files having a .mke extension.

Alright, reinstalled SDK, confirmed the mki file is reverted. Openned SDK Command prompt as an administrator and ran BUILDALLEXAMPLES, it returns as:

BMAKE: Error - Cannot find the .Net tools location for this toolset. VS2017_DotNetToolsDir was not defined, and registry lookup failed.

For all the examples. I have VS2017 Community Edition installed with all the latest updates.

FWIW I have a similar installation to yours.  There are some options you must select when installing Viz Studio, which I mention here.

Thanks Jon,

I confirmed that I have all those items installed, I don't think Web Development is needed, but I installed it either way just to match your setup. Still no luck, and still the same error:

BMAKE: Error - Cannot find the .Net tools location for this toolset. VS2017_DotNetToolsDir was not defined, and registry lookup failed.

Did you check: 

Jan Šlegr said:

there can be more and as was discovered, when original 4.6 is missing and only 4.6.2 is installed

I have installed 4.6 - 4.6.1 - 4.6.2 and no problems with VS2017_DotNetToolsDir

Well, I did install 4.6 Framework... but for some reason it doesn't come with SDK, so the folder here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin

Only has the 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 SDK, can't seem to find how and where to get the 4.6 SDK. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Viktor,

Just checked Visual Studio 2017 Installer. HTH;

My install matches this exactly, but I still don't have the 4.6 tools. Is there no way to get the examples to build with 4.6.1/4.6.2?

Another question, if I put the examples aside, am I going to need 4.6 tools in order to compile a .net API Connect app?