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atlbase.h is a header file which is provided by the Microsoft Active Template Library.
The error "System header atlbase.h is not available" indicates that you do not have a copy of ATL in your INCLUDE directory. There are several ways you can solve this problem:
Use the Professional Version of Microsoft Visual C++
The professional version of Microsoft Visual C++ comes with ATL headers.
Use the Windows 2003 SDK
The Windows 2003 SDK is a free download and is the last version of the Windows SDK to come with ATL headers.
NOTE: The Windows 2008 SDK, which the 2003 SDK page points you to, doesn't have the ATL headers.
You should restart start-msvcX.bat after installing the Windows 2003 SDK.
Note: If you encounter an error that atlbase.h cannot be found and you have installed Visual Studio 10 Express together with the platform SDK, you may have to delete a registry entry so that guess-msvc.bat doesn't detect VC10 installed. The key is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Setup\VC.
Disable code that uses ATL
ATL is used by only a small portion of our codebase. You should be able to disable these features and do a build without ATL:
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility