There are plenty of places that still sell VS.NET 2003 - http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&hs=XOH&resnum=0&q=visual+studio+2003&um=1&ie=UTF-8
-Nathan On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, I think you need to make an explicit note on the installer site... > CANNOT BE COMPILED ON WINDOWS > > The problem is the MS tools have moved on... 2003 cannot be found. > There seems to be a massive change on 2005 and up compilers. > Just about everything is deprecated, the headers seemed to have changed alot > from linux compilers. > Or more simply... VS is now windows only. > > I've being trying from the ant builds and also from VS 2005 directly... > You literally have to rewrite the code... > > I see the Sun JVM does also not support development on the MS platform, > whether that is strategic or > a technical issue as well, I'm not sure, I think its the former. > > I'm not up on all the compilers but from googling, there does not seem to be > a compiler that one > can readily use on MS. > > If you want to attract developers in this market... you have to show them > how to do it, or find an > old MS compiler and stick it on a FTP server or something. > > We going to setup a linux dev environment for this, but that immediately > reduces my local skills to a > grand total of one ;) > Possibly Cygwin is the way to go... I know that can tie up with netbeans, > but I'm not sure about > eclipse. > > Its a massive project... if the user cannot get it to their familiar dev > environment... it becomes a > 1 month excercise to just get going... > The divergence in tools is throwing away a huge developer market... very > unfortunate. > Sorry... I just cant figure out a way to get it going... and if we do port > it to MS tools, it will > never be compatible again with the CVS. > ... snookered ;)
