On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
For example, any binary-only externals that only work with a MSVC6-compiled pd... or some other library in that situation.
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On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
Some people have expressed desire to use MSVC, but no one has done the work, so... Personally, I only support MinGW, but I haven't removed any of the MSVC support.
For example, any binary-only externals that only work with a MSVC6- compiled pd... or some other library in that situation.
Not that I know of.
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Am 08.12.2006 um 17:33 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
Some people have expressed desire to use MSVC, but no one has done the work, so... Personally, I only support MinGW, but I haven't removed any of the MSVC support.
What exactly do you mean with "no one has done the work"? I have been using MSVC 6, since i'm working with PD and i'm still using it, plus, Miller's makefiles for Windows have always been based on MSVC 6. Maybe i don't get it, but what's the point about removing support for that compiler? Of course, i'm not talking about DD.
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On 12/8/06, Thomas Grill gr@grrrr.org wrote:
Maybe i don't get it, but what's the point about removing support for that compiler? Of course, i'm not talking about DD.
If anything adding better support for VS.2003 and VS.2005 is needed.
On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
Am 08.12.2006 um 17:33 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
Some people have expressed desire to use MSVC, but no one has done the work, so... Personally, I only support MinGW, but I haven't removed any of the MSVC support.
What exactly do you mean with "no one has done the work"? I have been using MSVC 6, since i'm working with PD and i'm still using it, plus, Miller's makefiles for Windows have always been based on MSVC 6. Maybe i don't get it, but what's the point about removing support for that compiler? Of course, i'm not talking about DD.
I mean pure-data/externals, I guess. only like 30-40% of those compile with MSVC AFAIK.
.hc
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
Some people have expressed desire to use MSVC, but no one has done the work, so... Personally, I only support MinGW, but I haven't removed any of the MSVC support.
Well, I have to remove MSVC support, because it has to be redone anyway, because there has been too many changes in the main makefile. It would be better if a future makefile aimed at MSVC could be generated using a simple search-and-replace on the main makefile.
However, among people who are interested in work on DesireData now, there's no-one who wants to use MSVC.
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