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-rw-r--r--cpp/config/Make.rules.mak13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/cpp/config/Make.rules.mak b/cpp/config/Make.rules.mak
index 76296c1c2da..4fbedbb0894 100644
--- a/cpp/config/Make.rules.mak
+++ b/cpp/config/Make.rules.mak
@@ -58,16 +58,13 @@ THIRDPARTY_HOME = $(THIRDPARTY_HOME)-x64
!endif
#
-# For VC80 and VC8 express its necessary to set the location of the
-# manifest tool. This must be the 6.x version of MT, not the 5.x
+# For VC80 and VC80 Express it is necessary to set the location of the
+# manifest tool. This must be the 6.x version of mt.exe, not the 5.x
# version!
#
-# For VC80 this is in the Common7/Tools directory. This location is
-# set through the standard VC8 environment variable VC80COMNTOOLS.
-#
-# For VC8 express this means using the version in the platform SDK. It
-# is necessary to set the location of the platform sdk through the
-# PDK_HOME variable (see INSTALL.WINDOWS for details).
+# For VC80 Express mt.exe 6.x is provided by the Windows Platform SDK.
+# It is necessary to set the location of the Platform SDK through the
+# PDK_HOME environment variable (see INSTALL.WINDOWS for details).
#
!if "$(CPP_COMPILER)" == "VC80"
MT = "$(VS80COMNTOOLS)bin\mt.exe"