On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 4:45 AM Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> "Install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5. SP1 > (recommended by Microsoft. Note: later versions of the Windows SDK will > not work. AOO can not be built with MSVC 2010 or 2012 - MSVC 2008 is > needed and is found in the Windows 7 SDK)" > > Both the links given for installing the software get "download no longer > available". > > Since I have built many times on the machine in question that download > cannot be necessary. Since the instructions do not specify the files, it > is difficult to search for them. > > That isn't good at all. My 13 March 2018 email entitled "First steps in building with MSVC 14 / Visual Studio 2015" described some of the work involved in using newer MSVC versions to build AOO. That "Windows Kit" needs better integration into the build and packaging, but I think it will limit us to Windows 7 and later (the irony being that the open-source mingw[-w64] toolchain, which only links to the primordial MSVCRT.DLL, could let us support even Windows 9x). Hopefully we can also simplify the current situation with the many MSVCR* versions we use in the process. Get started and I'll catch up in a few weeks when I am more free? Damjan
