I'd use whichever version is the latest free one. VS2015 community edition is the one I use, but MS are still pretty good about backward compatibility, so any previous version should do.
> On 28/07/2016, at 5:09 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Which version of MS Visual Studio would you use? > >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Winston Kodogo <kod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey Chris >> >> Cygwin is an option. Albeit one I wouldn’t use. The guys who did pf9 used >> mingw. Which I also wouldn’t use. I like MS Visual Studio with access to the >> native libraries on the platform of my choice - so colour me bigoted. >> >> I was kind of wondering if there was an option for people who like Microsoft >> development tools to build Plan9 tools, which are admittedly a minority >> taste in the Windows world, without spending several weeks installing 3rd >> party tools and then being told how stupid they are. >> > On 28/07/2016, at 1:27 PM, Chris McGee <sirnewton...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >> > >> > I was thinking of using Cygwin to see would be capable of compiling p9p. >> > >> > Chris >> > >> >> On Jul 27, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Simmons <kod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> What the subject line says. >> >> >> >> This is not remotely intended to disrespect Sean Quinlan’s 9pm, or the >> >> guys who did pf9. I’m just asking because there are still chunks of p9p >> >> that I’d like to have under Windows. Some of the chunks I want (mostly >> >> the command line utilities, also sam, not so much acme) I’ve managed to >> >> build under Microsoft Visual Studio (note to self - wash mouth out and >> >> learn to eschew IDEs and love mk ((also, sub-note to self, don’t use >> >> syntax highlighting))) >> >> >> >> But, and this is a large but, there are parts of p9port that seem to be >> >> dependent on the Unix world - unix pipes for one, the stuff about sigjmp >> >> for another. >> >> >> >> So, what the subject line says, but also - how much of the Unix-specific >> >> stuff in the current p9p is essential to a port to Windows? >> >> >> >> Go in peace >> >> James V Choate XXXVI >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >
