Re: MSVS 2005 and Gnu Make

[Jon Grant]

Hi Bob,

Bob Van Tuyl wrote on 11/05/07 09:48:
> Jon:
>
> Thanks.  I had installed the Platform SDK, but not VS8 SP1.  I installed VS8 
> SP1.
>
> The 2005 compiler is not very forgiving of mixing different size integers, 
> calling functions with the wrong types, and other similar mismatches.  It also 
> wants the old functions that do not have size limits in them to be tossed out of 
> the code.  Happily, most can be overcome with appropriate configuration 
> definitions.  Other errors or warnings require casting to make the warning or 
> error go away.

If you could post details of the configuration definitions that would be
handy.

Also if you could submit your final MSVC 2005 sln/vcproj files
etc as a zip that would be really useful, I can't generate those myself.
Good luck with the testing.

Kind regards, Jon
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