Useful Little Things

Here’s the steps I went through to set up Visual Studio for assembly programming under Windows 7 64-bit.  Unfortunately, it only builds 32-bit executables.

1. Install Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.
2. Download Irvine samples (“Example programs and link libraries (designed for Visual Studio 2008)”) and install in C:\Irvine.
3. Copy Irvine lib and include files to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ (*.lib files go in lib folder and *.inc files go in the include folder).
4. Open an Irvine sample project.
5. Compile.

To create a new project, simply use the Save As option from one of the existing Irvine solutions/projects.  It is much easier than trying to create a project from scratch.