I'm using v8i select series 4 and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to specify in the MicroStation Developer Shell that I would like bmake to use the compile built into microstations and not the vs 2005 compile?

Jan,

Thank you.  I have been able to compile and run a simple pure mdl example that displays a simple dialog box.  I used mcomp and mlink to create the ma file for this.

I've inherited several pure mdl programs, complete with make files.  I want to now compile and link the first of these programs using bmake to test them.  Unfortunately, when I run bmake specifying the make file but got the following error:

BMAKE: Error - Attempting to build with VS 2005 but location is undefined!
BMAKE: call trace
line: 119, C:\PROGRA~2\Bentley\MICROS~1\MICROS~1\mdl\include\AssertToolSet.mki
line: 109, C:\PROGRA~2\Bentley\MICROS~1\MICROS~1\mdl\include\ConfigurePolicy.mki
line: 28, C:\PROGRA~2\Bentley\MICROS~1\MICROS~1\mdl\include\mdl.mki
line: 8, c:\hastus\menus\menus.mke

The source file is a .mc file.

I thought I saw somewhere on this form that there is a flag to tell Microstations not to use the vs 2005 compiler and use the Microstations compiler?  Does something like that exist?

Brenden OReilly said:

I thought I saw somewhere on this form that there is a flag to tell Microstations not to use the vs 2005 compiler and use the Microstations compiler?  Does something like that exist?

Maybe. But the idea is wrong.

If you bother to check the examples, you saw that there is nothing like "switch VS2005 off" used in them. These simple makefiles do not call VS2005 (or any other native code compiler).

Probably something in your mke is configured to use native code compiler.

Brenden OReilly said:

when I run bmake specifying the make file but got the following error:

It does not tell too much.

To share both mke file and also verbose compilation (so e.g. how macros are resolved will be visible) would help.

Regards,

  Jan

Brenden OReilly said:

I thought I saw somewhere on this form that there is a flag to tell Microstations not to use the vs 2005 compiler and use the Microstations compiler?  Does something like that exist?

Maybe. But the idea is wrong.

If you bother to check the examples, you saw that there is nothing like "switch VS2005 off" used in them. These simple makefiles do not call VS2005 (or any other native code compiler).

Probably something in your mke is configured to use native code compiler.

Brenden OReilly said:

when I run bmake specifying the make file but got the following error:

It does not tell too much.

To share both mke file and also verbose compilation (so e.g. how macros are resolved will be visible) would help.

Regards,

  Jan