and vc6 is really old, you can dwonload vc2003 for free...from microsofts website somewehre, i think its faster than mingw, especially when compiling pd as a VST, but i generally use mingw, it sjust less hassle.:
http://whats-your.name/pd/build_pd_mingw32.html has the links
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=272BE09D-40BB-49FD-...
Visual C 2003: Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
But there are still folks _insisting_ on using Windows 98 (hopefully SE!) for their projects...
Hell, I'm sad the DOS version of PD went away. Yeah, yeah, I know.
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