IRIS Explorer - PC (Windows) Frequently Asked Technical Questions
This document is designed for users of IRIS Explorer with PC (Windows)-specific questions. For more general questions, or those that apply to another platform, please select one of the links provided in the right side box.
Questions
- How do I set up IRIS Explorer to work with the Visual Studio C/C++ compiler? [answer]
Answers
- How do I set up IRIS Explorer to work with the Visual Studio C/C++ compiler? [Top]
The Windows version of IRIS Explorer 5.0 was designed to use the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or compatible compiler for building users' modules and for compiling groups of modules. (For building Fortran-based modules, Visual Fortran 6.0 or compatible is also required.) IRIS Explorer uses the following method to check whether its local environment variables have been set appropriately:
- It checks to see if nmake is in the PATH. If so, it assumes the PATH, INCLUDE and LIB environment variables are already set up correctly.
- If it didn't find nmake in the PATH, it checks to see if the "Visual C++ directory" setting within IRIS Explorer is set. If not, it pops up a dialog box asking the user to set it.
- Once this has been done, it searches all directories below the "Visual C++ directory", and adds all directories called "bin" to PATH, all directories called "include" to INCLUDE and all directories called "lib" to LIB environment variables respectively. (Note that IRIS Explorer 5.0 expects the PATH, INCLUDE and LIB environment variables to already be set to something.)
Please ask your nearest IRIS Explorer Centre if you have any questions about this note.