On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 04:36:47PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:36:50PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > > I tried to compile PAR with Microsoft's Visual C++ toolkit - and it looks > > like it is so braindead that it can't even find 'windows.h'. > > > > Has anybody done this, or do you need to stick to VC++ 6+? > > I have tried and failed, even after downloading hundreds of megabytes > of Win32 SDK installers. It does not build Perl and cannot build PAR. :-/
Figures.. Anybody know of a viable freeware alternative, or a place where old compilers (vc6) go for adoption? I know CYGWIN is available, but its ugly 'static linking only' policy sort of hurts when my main purpose is making standalone, self-installable executables. Ed
