Building the Microsoft Detours library for Visual Studio 2008

They already wrote about the excellent Microsoft Detours library here . Its capabilities are really impressive, there is only one thing: the library needs to be assembled from source (which is not typical for libraries on the Windows platform, and especially for Microsoft products). Moreover, it’s hard to find a clear instruction on how to do this (I still couldn’t), and a regular make-file when building using Visual Studio 2008 gives a bunch of errors. Having finally collected Detours, I decided to write (for myself - for the future) assembly instructions. If she saves someone a couple of minutes - I will be glad.

1. Download Microsoft Detours .
2. Install (all by default).
3. Go to the project folder, open the samples \ common.mak file in any text editor (I have the full path to this file: C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Research \ Detours Express 3.0 \ samples \ common.mak ). Attention - if you use Vista \ Win7 with UAC enabled, you will need an editor running with administrator privileges (“Run as administrator”).
4. Find the line
   

   rc /nologo /fo$(@) /i$(INCD) $(*B).rc

   and replace it with
   

   rc /fo$(@) /i$(INCD) $(*B).rc

   
   those. remove "/ nologo"
5. We launch the Visual Studio console with administrator privileges: Start-> All programs-> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008-> Visual Studio Tools-> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt - “Run as administrator”
6. Go to the Microsoft Detours folder
   

   cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\Detours Express 3.0"

7. Declare an environment variable with the target platform
   

   set DETOURS_TARGET_PROCESSOR=x86

8. Build
   nmake all

At the output, we get the assembled library and all the examples from the samples folder.
Good luck to use.