Re: compiling PAR with Visual C++ toolkit

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 04:36:47PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:36:50PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > I tried to compile PAR with Microsoft's Visual C++ toolkit - and it looks
> > like it is so braindead that it can't even find 'windows.h'.
> > 
> > Has anybody done this, or do you need to stick to VC++ 6+?
> 
> I have tried and failed, even after downloading hundreds of megabytes
> of Win32 SDK installers.  It does not build Perl and cannot build PAR. :-/


Figures..

Anybody know of a viable freeware alternative, or a place where old compilers 
(vc6)
go for adoption?

I know CYGWIN is available, but its ugly 'static linking only' policy sort of 
hurts 
when my main purpose is making standalone, self-installable executables.

Ed