RE: [ROOT] VC++ compiler available for free from MS...

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 18:32:08 MEST


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.
> > 
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