>
> For the people using Windows, the VC++ command line version of the
> compiler is now freely available from MS, this is exactly what we use
> when we build ROOT on Windows:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
>
I would like to call your attention to the very last paragraph of the
Web page mentioned above.
It says,
" . . .
You might decide you want to augment the Toolkit with additional free
tools from Microsoft, including the Platform SDK, or the .NET Framework
SDK.
. . ."
In other words that kit can be used to build the WIN32 Console
application only. One can NOT use it to re-build ROOT.
On the other hand as soon as you have downloaded the ROOT binaries for
Windows that kit should be sufficient to customize the ROOT framework
with your "non-gui" classes (for example to speed up your RootCint
macros with ACLiC facility). I.e. your class can not call directly any
Win32. (Your RootCint macro can not do that either)
I assume the users on this list are interesting in the cross platform
applications
and do not want calling any Win32 API directly
Hope this helps,
-- Valeri Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
>
> -- Fons
>
>
> PS: MS always made a "standard" compiler available for free but that
> one did not include the optimizer so it was basically useless.
> Now the optimizer is included.
>
> --
> Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
> Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
> E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248
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