I moved a bit forward (after installing Platform SDK to VC Express).
Now I can run successfuly make_icu.bat
but when I run make_boot.bat it ends with error :

------ Build started: Project: btyacc, Configuration: Release Win32 --
----
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input
file '..\..\..\temp\Win32\Release\btyacc\skeleton.obj'
Build log was saved at "file://c:\temp\Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1
\temp\Win32\Release\btyacc\BuildLog.htm"
btyacc - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
==========

Any advice, how to bypass it ? (FB 2.1 Beta 1)
TIA
-Laco.

> Hi,
> Is possible to compile FB using VS C++ Express 2005 ?
> (if not can be compiled using some other C++ compiler under

windows?)

> If yes, are somewhere documented steps , which must be done to
> successfuly build it ?
>
> When I load firebird solition into VS and try compile it ... many
> errors are generated ... "Cannot open include

file 'windows.h' ..."

> etc.
>
> I suppose, that some bat file must be modified and run (some ENV
> variables must be set and so on ...)
>