Roger Leigh writes: > The last time I checked, anyone could download the latest MS > compiler from the MS website,
Note, though, that at least the freely downloadable "Visual C toolkit 2003" compiler is only marginally usable by itself for something like building GTK+. It doesn't include any Win32 headers. I haven't checked the very new "Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition" (which is "free for one year") yet. You would need the Platform SDK, too. And because of the C runtime issues (see below) the binaries you would produce would be incompatible with the ones I build and distribute from ftp.gtk.org. The newer compilers produce code that link to compiler version -specific C runtimes (msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll, msvcr80.dll etc). GTK+, GLib, etc use msvcrt.dll (which is part of the operating system). If an application using msvcr80.dll passes a file descriptor to g_io_channel_win32_new_fd(), it won't work. (File descriptors are C runtime specific numbers.) There are presumably other cases where the GTK+ and GLib API/ABI makes an implicit assumption that the caller uses the same C runtime as the library. > Why not just make proper C99 support the minimum requirement? BTW, are we discussing compilers used for building GTK+/GLib/etc here, or compilers used for building software that *uses* GTK+/GLib/etc? --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
