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Janus
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Compiling help.

Post by Janus »

Have run into a very vexing and frustrating problem.
I have been using an old copy of the explorer++ code that I have tweaked for my own use, and decided to start fresh with my void tools integration.

I am working on a fresh system with VS2013.
I grabbed the explorerplusplus-master.zip from github.
I opened the project.
I set the platform toolset to 'Visual Studio 2013 - Windows XP (v120_xp)' on the explorer++ sub project.
After that complained about wanting v140_xp, I reset all the sub projects.
I am still getting

error MSB8020: The build tools for v140_xp (Platform Toolset = 'v140_xp') cannot be found.

This is a fresh system and vs2013 install.
There has never been another compiler on it.
I have changed everything I can reach through the gui, to no effect.

How do I get rid of this?
Why is it requiring it?
Is Vs2015 required to compile now?

For now I am going to manually edit out the interfering parameters.
However, this will need to be fixed for others.
I doubt I am the only one using older versions of VS.

I will never run VS2015 unless security concerns can be addressed.
VS2015 itself has telemetry, which I can not allow on my lan.
The express/community version requires an M$ account, which I will never have.
Thus the purchase can not be justified unless there is a way to secure it, and I have a LOT! of money to spare.

Hoping this is a glitch.


Janus.
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