Re: [AOLSERVER] Unix vs. Windows build environments

[Rick Gutleber]

Bas Scheffers wrote: Jamie Rasmussen said: For my nightly AOLserver build I use Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. The Toolkit is command-line only but free-to-download. In my opinion that's enough to make it the preferred compiler for now. I have a TCL script Isn't the code the free one produces not quite as optimized as the full version? I don't recall hearing that but I forget a lot of things these days.  I do know that VC++ 2003 was, at least at the time, one of the best compilers in the Windows platform (except for maybe Intel's), and definitely the most standards-compliant.  Yes, from Microsoft.  VS 2005 Express is also available for free and might be a good candidate for the standard Windows build.  My understanding is that it is far more full-featured than the command-line only free VC++ 2003. Of course, there's always gcc, right?  I think providing a MS project file is highly desirable (VS6 is still widely used despite being as old Windows98 and newer versions of VS can handle .dsw/.dsp files), but maybe gcc would be good for candidate the official build as well as being a more open-friendly choice. What about http://openwatcom.org/ ? IIRC Watcom used to be the bees knees back in the days. What are people's opinions of it? It'd be interesting to see if there is a performance difference between these two free (as in beer) compilers. Watcom seems a bit more free (as in speech) as well. Now that AOLserver 4.5 has been released, maybe we can get a simple installer together and upload it to SourceForge. I imagine that's the format most prospective win32 users want. Sounds like a plan. But what about the DB drivers? I guess that most would install databases using their respective installers and put them in default locations as well, so I guess it'd be safe to provide dynamically linked Postgres and MySQL drivers. I think including database drivers as well as the all the other modules that are publicly available (all optional of course) should be a high priority for an installer. Rick -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.