"Build Environment" page feedback - SP1 needed for MSVC 2010

[Black_Fox]

I had problems calling "configure VSSolution" because detecting C compiler with freshyl installed MSVC 2010 would fail with "fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF". I googled that MSVC 2010 has a bug and one possible solution is to apply SP1 to it. That fixed the issue for me immediatelly. Could you please add to that guide that "MSVC 2010 SP1" has to be used?

[Black_Fox]

The page Build Environment will need more changes, it seems. As I was told by Amine, there are not so many differences between MinGW and MSVC build right now.
To build with MSVC:
- Have CMake Amine Edition installed and its bin added to PATH
- Have RosBE installed and its bin added to PATH
- Run MSVC command prompt
- Run pathtocheckout/configure (NOT with VSSolution)
- follow the MinGW procedure (cd host-tools && ninja; cd ../reactos && ninja; ninja bootcd)

I'll create a JIRA issue later if nobody gets to it until then.

[hbelusca]

To build with MSVC:
- Have CMake Amine Edition installed and its bin added to PATH
- Have RosBE installed and its bin added to PATH

In fact for MSVC, if you don't want to install the full RosBE since at the end you'll end up using only CMake and ninja (and VC of course), you can just install CMake and ninja (and add its bin path added to PATH ofc) via http://svn.reactos.org/amine/CMake_ninja.7z

[Black_Fox]

OK, that's pretty cool! I'll try it out later, thanks.

[Z98]

We had a custom CMake for a while, were all our changes rolled into the mainline?