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?

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I'm getting the below warning when I start the developer shell: 
 # Warning: Compiler Setup error # VS80COMNTOOLS not defined. That should have been set when the # .NET 2005 compiler was installed. You will not be able to do # any native C, C++ or C# development using the default compiler # for MicroStation. #----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 I don't want to use the vs 2005 compiler how do I tell bmake to use the microstations compiler?

Jan Šlegr · Accepted Answer

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

Jan Šlegr · Answer

Hi Brenden, 
 the selection is done mostly automatically, so when .mc file is compiled, mcomp should be called. 
 I recommend to check examples, delivered with SDK, for the few remaining cases with .mc files, especially how mke + mki files are written. 
 With regards, 
 Jan

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?

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