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

[Will Coleda]

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Provide setup and build instructions for Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003>).

[William Coleda]

Thanks!

I just cut and pasted this from TODO.win32 - you might want to ping the list, as I have no idea who requested the original item. =-)

Jonathan Worthington via RT wrote:

>>[coke - Mon Sep 20 18:35:04 2004]:

>>
>>Provide setup and build instructions for Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003>).
>>
>

> It's somewhat hard to test this out without finding a box that is
> missing Visual Studio, which exludes any of mine. Looking at what is
> included in the toolkit, I expect that you'd also need nmake (which is
> already discussed in README.win32) and probably the Windows Platform
> SDK. With those, the build process should be the same as it would if
> you had MS Visual Studio.
>
> I'll try and test this out for real at some point soon, but I fear that
> point may not be all that soon. :-) For now, I've attached a patch to
> README.win32 that does some general updates, including addressing
> building with the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 to the best of my knowledge.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jonathan

[Ron Blaschke via RT]

> I just cut and pasted this from TODO.win32 - you might want to ping
> the list, as I have no idea who requested the original item. =-)

This ticket was probably my fault. ;-) I'll try to provide the proper
instructions.