compatibility between Microsoft Visual Studio and Window Server 2008 R2

[wooosk]

Hello,

I have intel fortran compiler 11.1.048 version running on Window Server 2008 R2. Currently i have visual studio 2008.
But, I've been having couple of "LINK' errors related to visual studio.
Some says supported systems for VS2008 is Server 2003 (notServer 2008)and some says Server 2008 is also supported.

My question is:
if Window Server 2008 is supported, then Server 2008 R2 is also supported by VS 2008?
Which version of visual studio is suppporting Window Server 2008 R2?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Sue

[TimP]

This seems a question more appropriate to checking on Microsoft sites, but all of VS2005,2008, and 2010 should work on Server 2008 R2 32- or 64-bit, with the application of current service packs (particularly important in the case of VS2005).
Evidently, Server R2 wasn't supported by the original VS2005 or 2008, as it didn't exist at that time.
If your link errors are associated with use of ifort, you should give more information.

[wooosk]

Does VS2010 Express work for Intel fortran 11.1.048 as well or it should be professional version?

For VS2008, which service pack should i use?

my lastest LINK error was following;
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LINK: fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'uuid.lib'
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Thanks,
Sue

[Steven_L_Intel1]

None of the "Express" versions support Intel Fortran. And Intel Fortran 11.1 does not support VS2010 - the current version 12 (Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011) does.

The lack of UUID.LIB is due to not having the Windows SDK installed and on the linker path.

We use Windows Server 2008 R2 in our testing and we use both VS2008 and VS2010 there.

[wooosk]

Thanks Steve.

I have Windows SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A) and there is UUID.LIB in library folder. And i have specified their path in environment variables.
But still gives me the same error.
Can you please help me where i need to specify the linker path??

This lack of UUID.LIB problem did not happen before and couple month ago my program was working properly.

How this Window SDK is different from PlatformSDK which is also included in VS 2008? I think i used to have this PlatformSDK folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC, but now i don't have.

Thanks much!
Sue

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Sue,

Yes, Windows SDK is the new name for Platform SDK. If you are using environment variables, I assume you are building from the command line. The LIB environment variable is the one that should include the path to the folder with UUID.LIB in it. Make sure that LIB still has that at the time you do the link.