Visual Studio 6 is almost eight years old. Microsoft doesn't support it
and recent versions of the Platform SDK won't work with it.
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
build the (patched) core and over two dozen additional modules,
including downloading and, when possible, building the many additional
libraries those modules require. I'm not sure how many of these
additional libraries would compile with mingw...
> What would it take to make AOLserver build correctly with VC++ 2005?
Visual Studio 2005 is brand new and pretty nice. TCL 8.4 had to be
patched to build with it, see bug #1424909. That only happened two
weeks ago (I haven't tried it) so that could be one of the problems the
AOL team ran into. The AOLserver makefiles would probably also need to
disable the new safe string stuff, etc. There are free-to-download
limited versions of the 2005 tools, I don't know if they're usable in
this context.
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.
By the way, if anyone is seeing AOLserver on Windows crash, one cause is
a bug in Tcl_WaitPid that was fixed in TCL 8.4.13.
Jamie
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