Re: Impossible level?

[Kenneth Gangstoe]

Funny typo... "enough to use vc7 as the default" it should be :)


Quoting Kenneth Gangstoe (address@hidden):
> If you compile as a static app (which is pretty default I think), you
> don't need any runtime MS C DLL's.
> 
> I dont understand this __gc problem you mention. 
> 
> VC7 has a superior STL implementation, and that is reason enough to use
> VC6 as the default build IMO.
> 
> - Kenneth
> 
> Quoting Neil Mitchell (address@hidden):
> > | You are using MSVC6 I guess? MSVC6 has problems with templates which are
> > | used in blitter.cxx and blitterimpl.hxx. If so you can use the patch I've
> > | committed this morning (Mo 07.04.03 08:52), it should fix the problem. I
> > | don't know if Ingo commits the patch to cvs, but even if not, we VC6ers
> > can
> > | either update to .net or keep these 2 files as our own local versions...
> > Yep, its VC6.
> > 
> > I'm not sure its a good idea to update to VC7 because it uses a different
> > version of MS C runtime DLL's, which are bigger, and aren't on every
> > computer, while the VC5/6 ones are the same and everyone who has installed
> > anything will have them. Also VC7 has lots of "extra stuff", i.e. __gc to
> > make a class garbage collected, and its only a matter of time before
> > something conflicts in some way. Because of this its probably best to keep
> > VC6 as the default build for pingus on windows.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Neil
> > 
> > 
> > 
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