Win-GHC with GnuWin32 toolset--Mingw32 replacement

[Peter Tanski]

On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> On Xp and W2K the reg program is capable of querying and modifying the
> registry. Just type "reg" at the command line. It basically calls the
> Win32 Reg... functions with the appropriate parameters.

I just discovered the tool we need: users should have the Microsoft  
Platform SDK installed.  A quick search for that directory, and in  
there, specifically Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK [version,  
type]\Setup\ is VCDetect.Exe, which is run from the command line and  
outputs the correct batch-script call for the environment variables  
to a file:

C:\>VCDetect file
C:\>type file

@ECHO OFF
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools 
\VSVars32.bat"
SET MSVCVer=8.0

I still haven't figured out how to call this properly from a bash- 
shell (however emulated in DOS).  By the way, vSvars32.bat is for  
Visual Studio (more general, better) and--my mistake--vcvars32.bat is  
specific to Visual C++.

Cheers,
Pete