From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T23:16:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Free VC++ Compiler

Hello Robert,

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:13:35 PM, you wrote:

>>>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
RM> available 
>>>to people who don't have a copy of VC++.
>>
>>The release is only for Win2k and upwards.

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

I think we should drop support for MS-DOS based program loaders (no i'm
not going to call them operating systems).


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