Visual Studio 2008 Compiler Integrations

[mwpowel]

Hello,

We have Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 running side-by-side, and trying to install the Visual Fortran Compiler 10.1.024, which I understand has compiler integration for Visual Studio 2008 as well as 2005.

Installing on my workstation, this is fine. 2005 and 2008 both indicate that the compiler integration takes correctly in the IDE help about dialog. Pending whether compilation produces any funny results.

However, on my development laptop, integration takes for 2005, but fails to take for 2008. Any thoughts on what might be going on? Should I uninstall 2008 and reinstall, then reinstall the Fortran Compiler?

Other than that, I'm at a loss as to why it might be different from one machine to the next (other than the obvious, by now, Windows questions).

Regards,

-Michael

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If you found rc.exe in VC\bin, then go to Tools > Options > Intel Visual Fortran > Compilers. Click the Reset All button. If you are building 64-bit applications, on that same dialog change the target platform to x64 and click Reset All.

[TimP]

In my case, rc.exe was missing from initial installation of vs2008 on win7-x64. VS repair didn't fix this, but complete removal and repeat installation did. Got several warnings about pdb being busy during the time-consuming re-application of SP1; don't know yet how many of the Intel software tools must be repaired/re-installed.

Unlike VS2005, VS2008 is looking for rc.exe in the SDK folder.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

As the Fortran release notes say, VS2008 Professional Edition and higher does not default to installing x64 support - you have to choose a Custom install to get that. (Same with VS2005.) At least VS2010 appears to include x64 by default (from my limited experience.)