[perl #31652] [TODO] Win32 - Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

[chromatic via RT]

With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary?

[Jonathan Worthington]

chromatic via RT wrote:
> With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary?
>

Since Windows doesn't ship with a C compiler and this toolkit is one of
the easiest ways to get hold of one for free, then yes, it's good to
have it documented. (It may be *called* the C++ toolkit, but it's also
what you need to compile C code. Go figure. :-))

Jonathan

[Ron Blaschke]

I didn't use the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 but the full Visual Studio .NET
2003, so couldn't help there. But I'm using the new Visual C++ 2005
Express edition to build Parrot.

Seems like the old Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is discontinued.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336490.aspx

-snip-
The Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 has been replaced by Visual C++ 2005 Express
Edition. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition [1] provides a complete
integrated development and debugging environment making it the easiest
way to create powerful applications using the C/C++ language. Visual C++
2005 Express Edition also contains an enhanced version of the C/C++
optimizing compiler for the fastest executables. Best of all, the Visual
C++ 2005 Express Edition is completely free!

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/default.aspx
-snip-

[Steve Peters via RT]

On Sun Dec 17 19:29:46 2006, chro...@wgz.org wrote:
> With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary?

I have a Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 lying around (I think), so, if I do,
I'll give this a try along with my Borland work.

[Jonathan Worthington]

Ron Blaschke wrote:
> Seems like the old Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is discontinued.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336490.aspx
>

Aha. If you would have a moment to write these latest changes into
readme.win32.pod and send in a patch, that'd be awesome; otherwise I'll
get to it when I can.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[Ron Blaschke]

I'll gladly update the documentation with the changes, and how to set up
Visual C++ 2005 Express. Parrot isn't quite VC8 ready, though, because
of the Unmanaged Assemblies changes, as recently discussed on Perl
Porters. Most of the time it works, though. I'll try to come up with
patches for this, too. But that's already far away from this ticket,
I'll create a new one for this.

Ron