[XBoard-devel] Compiling cvs winboard with MSVC

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hello,

i heard from a lot of people they have problems to compile the current 
cvs winboard version with Microsoft Visual Studio. 

They got the follow error message: (sorry german version, but the vars
should be the same)

cl -c -W3 -DCRTAPI1=_cdecl -DCRTAPI2=_cdecl -nologo -D_X86_=1 -D_WINNT
-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0300 -DWINVER=0x0400 -DWIN32
-D_WIN32 -I. -I.. -DWINVER=0x0400 -Z7 -Od ../backend.c
backend.c
../backend.c(9255) : error C2520: Konvertierung von unsigned __int64 in
double nicht implementiert, verwenden Sie signed __int64

The problem is so far that Microsoft goes their own special way for
unsigend/sigend 64bit types. 
Of course we have the problem too, that we haven't yet a ANSI C standard
for 64bit.

So the workaround for that problem is to install the free public
"Processor Pack" AddOn for Visual Studio from Microsoft. 

Here is a download link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/download.aspx

--
Daniel Mehrmann

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