Having just raised a patch to create a VC7 build for BigBank I'm taking a
step back and thinking that we need a better position on Windows builds as
we have too many variations. In particular I just tried to open the VC7
Calculator sample project and it's not compatible with my oldish verision of
VC7. So we are faced with even more varieties of project files. This is not
sensible. I have two proposals.

1/ For those who want to use MSVC lets agree a version that we support and
try and stick with that. Can I suggest Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express
Edition. I have to admit that I haven't tried this but I will move if we
agree this is the right direction to be going in. Has anyone tried it?

2/ Implement a command line build for windows so that we can automate the
build process. I am currently looking at a cygwin build based on the *nix
project automake files. I haven't got it working just yet but will report
back.

Thoughts?

Simon

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