Hi Valeri, does it not say that these other tools are also free "additional free tools"? -- Fons On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 17:41, Valeri Fine wrote: > > > > 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 > > WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480 -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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