HI,
I followed the inst. instructions in odforce, but no results, I did:
-Start->Programs->Side Effects s.-> Houdini-> Command Line Tools -> hdkinstall.
It install HDK and note requirement of Visual C++.Net2003 for
build plug-ins
- My Computer-> Properties-> Advanced-> Environment Variables-> System V. MSCVDir with value=> CArchivos de programa*/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/bin
At this point I don't understand the others path environment variables
or values to add, to input in and which values <-> variables, I can't put
again MSVCDir
Anyway I tried, with the same result at first step…
And only can read the c-files from the compiler, not debug.
*Archivos de programa=Programs,well is obvious
Please some help, if it is possible
Thanks!

Make sure the value of MSVCDir has no spaces. ie. convert to the short form of the path.

This is exactly what I enter
Name of Variable:MSCVDir
Value:CArchivos de programa/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/bin
It is valid?

Here's what I have setup

C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~1.NET/Vc7

You need the dos style short form as Edward says.

It took me quite a while before I found that it was C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET on my PC. Didn't think it would see the .NET thing as an extension. It makes sense though… in a very Microsoft kind of way that is. I didn't know about dir /x so when I wasn't able to guess the shortname I ended up writing a small VB script. :roll:

I have a related problem, I've fixed all the paths so that they don't include spaces. But there is still one argument that contains a space and I don't know what it is or how to get rid of the space. You can see it below, it's on line 6. There's a space between the comma and the number of the beast.


D:\Robert\houdini\chops>hcustom CHOP_Test.C
Making ‘CHOP_Test.o’ and ‘CDOCUME~1/RSCHAA~1.PLA/MYDOCU~1/houdini8.1/dso\CHOP_
Test.dll’ from ‘CHOP_Test.C’
Error running cl
Argument list:
0: cl
1: -TP
2: CHOP_Test.C
3: -DUT_DSO_TAGINFO=“3262197cbf725a172ba70c98671da3dd1b66fcd3fc6f88f673a8c306
3d69ee812b972985db32267a5946addc329f31710ab7f503ffc2e857490728e266f881be4bae538a
ff924994a3268d0847f848e6ab4e87a38cea9865e3dc”
4: -TP
5: -DVERSION=8.1.613
6: -DOFSTREAM_PERMISSIONS=, 0666
7: -DI386
8: -DWIN32
9: -DSWAP_BITFIELDS
10: -DDLLEXPORT=__declspec(dllexport)
11: -I
12: .
13: -I
14: C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET/Vc7/include
15: -I
16: C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET/Vc7/PlatformSDK/include
17: -I
18: CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.613/custom/include
19: -I
20: CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.613/toolkit/include
21: -Ox
22: -MD
23: -GX
24: -GR
25: -DSESI_LITTLE_ENDIAN
26: -DMAKING_DSO
27: -FoCHOP_Test.o
28: -LD
29: -link
30: /libpath:CPROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET/Vc7/lib
31: /libpath:CPROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET/Vc7/PlatformSDK/lib
32:
33: CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.613/custom/houdini/dsolib/*.a
34: -out:CDOCUME~1/RSCHAA~1.PLA/MYDOCU~1/houdini8.1/dso/CHOP_Test.dll


I'm not entirely sure that the problem is with the OFSTREAM_PERMISSIONS flag though. Is there a way to get more verbose error reporting from hcustom?

Also, it compiles fine when I run cl myself with the cflags that are returned by “hcustom -d CHOP_Test.C”.

Could u post the CHOP_test.C please?
Also I dont know if it was luck or not, I used to have some troubles with compiling DSOs on windows and re-installing VC++ solve a lot of them. The HDK was already installed on my machine.

I tried reinstalling VC++, that didn't help though. It's kinda weird because hcustom has worked before. I'm also pretty sure that it worked without having to change the paths to shortpaths, I didn't do that until I started running into problems. Unfortunately I can't remember what might've changed in the meantime, I know I didn't upgrade to 8.1 until after I started running into problems with hcustom as well.

I could post CHOP_Test.C but that's not really useful since I get the same error with the samples, CHOP_Stair.C for instance.

Oh! OK.
I am compiling the examples fine! and yes for sure, I did not change the paths. I am running H8.0.474. and VC++ 7 with the compiler version 13.10.3077 for 80x86.