Binary Build Tools
 
 
 

The following software is used during the process of building the FDO binaries.

Tool Description Path Download from
msbuild the Visual Studio .NET build engine C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx
vcbuild Builds Visual C++ projects and solutions. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcpackages Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 from install CD
devenv Builds a solution using a specified solution configuration file. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 from install CD
cscript the command-line version of the Windows Script Host that provides command-line options for setting script properties C:\Windows\system32 Comes with the XP operating system
bison a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar.. If you intend to change the .y files that define the FDO expression and filter language, you must install this utility. C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin bison-1.875-4.exe from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/
sed (streams editor) is a text filter tool. It takes text input, performs one or more operations on the text and outputs the modified text. If you intend to change the .y files that define the FDO expression and filter language, you must install this utility. C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin sed-4.1.4.exe from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html
perl scripting language. This is used to build the FDO third-party OpenSSL components and to run the ArcSDE unit tests. C:\Perl\bin http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl
NoteFDO has been tested using Bison 1.875 and Sed 4.1.4 and will not work with other versions of these binaries.