setup VC9 for CE: ------------------ - VC9 doesn't have any setup batchfiles that prepare the environment for compiling with CE. You can take those from eVC4 and adapt them or write your own. This snippet should get you going: rem you need to adapt at least these three set OSVERSION=WCE500 set PLATFORM=MY_OWN_PLATFORM set TARGETCPU=MIPSII rem the compiler is always cl.exe, different compilers are in different paths set CC=cl.exe rem obviously, these need to be adjusted to where you installed VS2008 and the SDKs set VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 set SDKROOT=C:\Programme\Windows CE Tools set PATH=%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\bin\x86_mips;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\bin;%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\IDE;%PATH% set PLATFORMROOT=%SDKROOT%\%OSVERSION%\%PLATFORM% rem add libs and includes from the SDK set INCLUDE=%PLATFORMROOT%\include\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\MFC\include;%PLATFORMROOT%\ATL\include set LIB=%PLATFORMROOT%\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\MFC\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%PLATFORMROOT%\ATL\lib\%TARGETCPU% rem add libs that came with VC9 rem Note: there are more libs and includes under ce\atlmfc, you need to add these rem instead of the ones in the SDK if you want to use the newer version of ATL/MFC. set LIB=%LIB%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\lib\%TARGETCPU% - The snippet below can be used to build STLport for Pocket PC 2003 (using the Pocket PC 2003 SDK shipped with Visual Studio 2008, this is the SDK used when compiling programs from within the IDE): set OSVERSION=WCE420 set PLATFORM=POCKET PC 2003 set TARGETCPU=ARMV4 rem the compiler is always cl.exe, different compilers are in different paths set CC=cl.exe rem obviously, these need to be adjusted to where you installed VS2008 set VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 set SDKROOT=%VSINSTALLDIR%\SmartDevices\SDK set PATH=%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\bin\x86_arm;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\bin;%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\IDE;%PATH% set PLATFORMROOT=%SDKROOT%\PocketPC2003 rem add libs and includes from the SDK set INCLUDE=%PLATFORMROOT%\include set LIB=%PLATFORMROOT%\lib\%TARGETCPU% rem add libs that came with VC9 set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\atlmfc\include set LIB=%LIB%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\lib\%TARGETCPU%;%VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\ce\atlmfc\lib\%TARGETCPU% You should now be able to run cl.exe for the target you expected. - The cross compilers of VC9 are the same version as for the native target, i.e. MSC15. - In order for STLport to recognize which target you are compiling for, you need to have some macros defined, e.g. for the target architecture. The compilers do that partially on their own, but not sufficiently. Therefore, STLport requires these defines: -- These are generally set for CE: _UNICODE;UNICODE;_WIN32;WIN32;UNDER_CE;WINCE; -- This one uses an environment variable to set the CE version: _WIN32_WCE=$(CEVER); -- These are used to help STLport recognise the target architecture: $(ARCHFAM);$(_ARCHFAM_);$(INSTRUCTIONSET) Note that the instructionset is not strictly needed for x86 but definitely for ARM. It doesn't hurt for x86 though, so I'd always set these in any new project. -- For release builds: NDEBUG; -- For debug builds: DEBUG;_DEBUG; -- For debug builds with additional STLport diagnostics: DEBUG;_DEBUG;_STLP_DEBUG; -- For MFC applications: _AFXDLL; - Further settings: Code generation: Multithreaded [Debug] DLL Language: enable RTTI Optimization: maximise speed and enable whole program optimization for release builds - Linker settings: Ignore specific libraries: libc.lib;libcd.lib Commandline: /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWSCE Optimisation: /LTCG for release builds - Resource compiler: Define: UNDER_CE;WINCE;_WIN32_WCE=$(CEVER)