Using Visual Studio's 'cl' from a normal command line

Question

Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 (and perhaps 2008 for all I know) require the command line user to run in the \'Visual Studio Command Prompt\'. When starting this command promp

Answer 1

You can simply run the batch file which sets the variables yourself. In VS08 it's located at:-

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat