[PD-dev] supporting MSVC6

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

>
> Am 08.12.2006 um 17:33 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>
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>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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>>> On win32, is there any reason for still supporting MSVC6 instead  
>>> of switching to MinGW and/or Cygwin?
>>
>> Some people have expressed desire to use MSVC, but no one has done  
>> the work, so...  Personally, I only support MinGW, but I haven't  
>> removed any of the MSVC support.
>
> What exactly do you mean with "no one has done the work"?
> I have been using MSVC 6, since i'm working with PD and i'm still  
> using it, plus, Miller's makefiles for Windows have always been  
> based on MSVC 6.
> Maybe i don't get it, but what's the point about removing support  
> for that compiler? Of course, i'm not talking about DD.

I mean pure-data/externals, I guess.  only like 30-40% of those  
compile with MSVC AFAIK.

.hc

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