I vote for 3 - make sure OOo can be build with VS2008 Express, which includes getting rid of atl, which should be possible with a little bit of effort.
This would help a lot of people who want to do OOo / Open Source development on Windows, but don't need a costly version of the compiler for other reasons. Malte. Takashi Ono wrote, On 10.04.08 00:23: > Hi, > > Is it decided to depreciate .NET 2003 for building DEV300-Win32? > > DEV300 includes Windows Vista features and cannot be built with old psdk > while recent > Windows PDSK has problems with .NET 2003. > > I am using .NET 2003 professional. I think I have four options. > > 1. Buy and switch to .NET 2008 professional. > > 2. Switch to .NET 2008 express and give up atl related modules. > > 3. Switch to .NET 2008 express and copy atl stuff from .NET 2003 professional. > > 4. Copy sal.h from .NET 2008 express to Windows SDK and apply a few patches > to ooo > source. > > I am doing 4. and raised a couple of issues for the patches but it does not > make > sense if .NET 2003 is decided to be depreciated. > > I am doing MSVC build to eliminate side-effect of MingW port only and I do > not want > to buy .NET 2008 for the time being. > > Takashi Ono ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
