On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:45:56 +0100
Mark Dootson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  Hi,

> I *think* Mattia uses mingw32 against ActiveState and the free version of 
> nmake for Win32 builds. If I didn't happen to have MSVC 6, I would use that 
> combination.

  I use(d) that to make release.  For development I use MSVC 5 (Learning 
Edition), because
it has much faster compile times and a much better debugger.

  Sooner or later I will switch to a less archaic compiler version (likely the 
free 8.0), but
since I now use Linux as the main development platform, I am not feeling the 
urge to do so.

  I haven't checked recently, but I believe that ActiveState still uses MSVC 6 
to build their
binary releases, so you need MSVC 6 to build XS modules, because MSVC 7/8 uses a
different C runtime.

Regards,
Mattia

Reply via email to