I'm learning to develop a web-application with the google-nativeclient on a windows platform (win7). according to the instructions i must run make serve from the src directory of the pepper_(VERSION) I installed with the SDK, which in my case is pepper_31. The build runs until it gets to a point where it fails and show the following message:
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C:/bin/nacl_sdk/nacl_sdk/pepper_31/tools/host_vc.mk:25: *** Unable to find cl.exe in PATH while building Windows host build. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/bin/nacl_sdk/nacl_sdk/pepper_31/src/ppapi'
make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/bin/nacl_sdk/nacl_sdk/pepper_31/src/ppapi'
Makefile:56: recipe for target 'ppapi_ALL_TARGET' failed
make: *** [ppapi_ALL_TARGET] Error 2
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I figured its missing the cl.exe program but i don't even know what that is and how to get it. Can anyone help with this? Thank you.
There should have been a message before error:
To skip the host build use:
"make NO_HOST_BUILDS=1"
So the quick answer is: no, you don't need cl.exe (it is the Visual Studio C compiler) as long as you run make NO_HOST_BUILDS=1 <target>.
You can also install Visual C++ Express, and run make from a Visual Studio Command Prompt; this will put cl.exe in your path, so this error will go away.
Either way, this is not a great experience -- I've filed this bug to track this issue.