On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Gregory Shimansky wrote:
Alexei Zakharov wrote:
Hi Ivan,
Thank you for doing this first of all. IMO patches look good in
general. However, I'd like to emphasize two things (I've already told
you in private about them) and let others to comment on it.
1. In your patch you suggest to use MSVC 2005 - msvcr80.dll is used
instead of msvcr71.dll for example. Currently MSVC 2003 is required
for building the classlib. However, MSVC 2005 adds extensive support
for developing of 64bit applications and it looks like a natural
choice for 64bit Windows platform. So am +1 for supporting both
MSVCs.
But I also would like to know if there are any other opinions.
I think it would be good if we had a choice of microsoft tools
version. If we can support MSVC 2005 on x86_64, why not allow to
use it on x86 too? The only freely available development
environment from MS site is MSVC 2005 Community Edition. So if we
support it, it will help development for x86 version of windows.
Well... does it work? besides the rt dll issue, what else is
there? Is nmake backwards compatible? I thought one problem was
that 2005 was missing something that 2003 had...
geir
