compiling the VM on Win machines

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Tue Jun 22 01:33:40 UTC 1999


I don't know the differences out of my head but unless you want to do some
real fancy Visual C++ development stuff you should be fine with the standard
edition. For compiling Squeak stuff this should do it just fine.

  Andreas
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> ----------
> From: 	David Farber
> Reply To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, June 21, 1999 5:53 PM
> To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: 	recipient list not shown
> Subject: 	RE: compiling the VM on Win machines
> 
> 
> ok, since i am going to have to lay down some cash, is there any reason i
> couldn't go with the $99.95 standard editions of these or is there a
> compelling reason to get a professional edition?
> 
> david
> 
> At 05:25 PM 6/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Your options are:
> >MS Visual C++ (works - my preferred choice)
> >Borland C++ (should work without modifications; I never tested it)
> >Metrowerks CodeWarrior (should work with some modifications; I never
> tested
> >it either, but I may have too at some point ;-)
> >
> >Freeware/shareware/opensource: No compiler I know of. Cygnus GCC for
> Win32
> >(from www.cygnus.com) will NOT work - they are not supporting enough of
> the
> >Win32 functionality - their stated goal is to provide GCC (==Unix) guys
> with
> >a compiler for easier porting; their include files lack many things and
> >building DLLs is just a very subtle way of punishing people for wanting
> to
> >create Win32 stuff at all.
> >
> >  Andreas
> >--
> >+===== Andreas Raab ========= (andreasr at wdi.disney.com) ==+
> >| Walt Disney Imagineering        Phone: +1 818 544 5016  I
> >I Glendale, CA                    Fax:   +1 818 544 4544  I
> >+======< http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab >========+
> >
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From: 	David Farber
> >> Reply To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> >> Sent: 	Monday, June 21, 1999 5:16 PM
> >> To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> >> Cc: 	recipient list not shown
> >> Subject: 	compiling the VM on Win machines
> >> 
> >> 
> >> what are my options if i want to compile the VM on Windoze machines?
> are
> >> there any freeware/shareware/opensource compilers i could use? or is
> >> anyone
> >> in the final stages of coding a retargetable C compiler in squeak? ;)
> >> 
> >> david
> >> 
> 
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