There were several questions from the ROOT Windows users how one
can upgrade his/her version of Microsoft developer tools (VC++
compiler is a part of that).
For instance
On 30 Nov 98 at 12:03, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> the service pack 3 you mention, is that Sp3 for NT or a special
> SP3 for VC++ 5.0?
It is "Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Developer Studio v.5.0"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/vs97/kb.asp
(it is NOT service pack for Windows NT 4.0).
The "standard" place for "Service Packs" is
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/default.asp
But one may find there "packs" for VC++ 6.0 ONLY.
However ROOT is still compiled with for VC+5.0 and Digital Visual
Fortran v.5.0.
(I'd like to mention switching to VC++ 6.0 does require switching
to Digital Visual Fortran v.6.0 too,
see http://www.digital.com/fortran/
)
Below I am attaching some information on that from the "Developer
Studio Service Pack 3" README;
Note: By the way for our FORTRAN user I would advice to pick the
last Digital Visual Fortran v.5.0 update as follows:
http://www.digital.com/fortran/dvf-update.html
In http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk98/2298.html
Rene Brun mentioned that "It would be a real nightmare if
compilers on other platforms were featuring the same number
of bugs!!"
But I didn't find the list of the "bugs" from the Digital
http://www.digital.com/fortran/dvf/Relnotes-50D.txt
is less impressive that from Microsoft. I didn't see those
from other companies though )
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Finding More Information on Issues Resolved with This Service Pack
The Microsoft Knowledge Base contains articles that provide more
in-depth information about the Visual Studio issues that are fixed in
this Service Pack.
To locate these articles, go to
http://support.microsoft.com/support/
and follow the instructions below to build a query.
To build a Visual Studio Service Pack query:
1. Choose a product. (In this case, click "Any Products.")
2. Click on more search options to get choices about how you will
search.
3. Specify the type of search. This should be set to "Keyword
or Boolean search."
4. Enter the following as your search phrase:
VS97FixlistSP3
4. Click "Find."
Knowledge Base articles that contain VS97FixlistSP3, but do not
contain VS97FixlistSP1 or VS97FixlistSP2, describe fixes that were
added in Service Pack 3.
Since Service Pack 3 includes all of the fixes in Service Pack 1 and
Service Pack 2, all of the articles describing the fixes in Service
Pack 1 will contain all three keywords: VS97FixlistSP1,
VS97FixlistSP2, and VS97FixlistSP3.
Articles describing fixes in Service Pack 2 will contain the
VS97FixlistSP1 and VS97FixlistSP2 keywords. To find just those new
items that were fixed in Service Pack 3, search for:
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