Jenkins versus Visual C++ Studio 6

[Sylvain Neswadba]

Hi,

This is a purely informative post for those who want to compile a Microsoft Visual C++ 6 project with Jenkins.

• Get and unzip the Visual Studio SP6 (vs6sp6.exe).
  
• Unzip the file VS6sp61.cab
  
• In the resulting folder, copy the files Common\msdev98\bin\msdevP.exe and Common\msdev98\bin\msdevS.exe in the corresponding Visual Studio 6 installation folder.
• Now here is the interesting parts :
• I was able to compile my project with msdevP.exe instead of msdev.exe
• I was not able, using the exact same commands, to compile my project with msdevP.exe using Jenkins, running under the same account.
• I switched to msdevS.exe and it compiles fine.

I have no idea why, I just thought I would share this since it took me some time to figure the last part out.

Cheers