Visual Studio on XP Embedded

[Michael Demb]

Hi,

I installed Visual Studio 6 on XP Embedded image and tried to compile a
project. But I got the following error: "Error spawning 'vcspawn.exe'. The
build could not be performed."

Is there any known limitation of installing VS on embedded or may be someone
knows how to fix it.

Regards,
Michael.

 

[cshephy702]

Hi

I think maybe it's the problem of VS itself. Because many people
encounter this error when they install VS6 on XP Pro.

There is a link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327146 which specify
the problem.

FYI

Regards,
Samantha

 

[Michael Demb]

I got the hotfix from Microsoft, but it didn't help. I still get the same
error.
Any other ideas?

 

[Eberhard Schefold]

I got the hotfix from Microsoft, but it didn't help. I still get the same
error.
Any other ideas?

What is it that you're actually trying to achieve? Develop and
test/debug your application on the target platform? I use remote
debugging. It's easy and changes the target platform only minimally,
which gives me realistic results.

 

[Michael Demb]

No, I want to develop on the target platform. But the VS doesnt wont to
compile the projects.

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

Michael, there is no need to compile from within the xpe environment. Since
xpe is binary compatible with xp pro the app will just work when you build
for xp pro but deploy it to xpe. The caveat here is to ensure that any
binaries you're linking to in your program also exist in the runtime
(there's more to dependency requirements but satisfying your first order
dependencies is needed).

VS has so many dependencies that to get it running on XPe will result in an
runtime that looks nothing like what you'll be deploying your app to.

--
Andy

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