From: Robert  McGovern <robertm@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T21:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Free VC++ Compiler

>>I noticed an article on /. reporting that Microsoft is now giving away

>>their C++ compiler:
>>
>>   http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ 
>>
>>Maybe a boon to simplifying Ruby builds?  At least making it
available 
>>to people who don't have a copy of VC++.
>
>The release is only for Win2k and upwards.

True but it does address one thing that was missing from the previous
release of their c++ compiler, namely optimizations. The thing to do is
take the best of both worlds and combine the two installs (the previous
Microsoft SDK & the c++ toolkit). What I have tried so far works well
and compiles Ruby without any problems.

Rob