And to answer the question, VC6 for httpd 2.2 is simply for msvcrt.DLL compatibility and no-surprises upgrades. It is suboptimal, but not as suboptimal as MS's active disdain for msvcr###.dll users.
"Wang, Andy" <aw...@ptc.com> wrote: >On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 09:27 -0700, wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: >> Finally returned to VC6, having replaced my older svn on Windows >> which would no longer handshake with svn.apache.org and bumped into >> a single issue. >> >> Building VC6 binaries for win32, I was bitten by r1508904 which >> introduces >> a C99 type prior to releasing apr 2.0 (probably not a good idea to >> make >> such changes in a maintenance branch). > >I don't mean to tangent this discussion too much but I'm curious. > >So this change back in 2.2.26(?) was what finally made me start to use >visual studio 2010 for our windows builds (and boy is that an ugly >mess). > >Is there a reason why you're sticking with VC6 to build? > >I was surprised that this change made it into a maintenance branch, but >honestly was looking for something to push me to building on VC2010. > >Thanks, >Andy
