Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Mart,

VC 2003 is still not C99

it still lacks variadic macros :(

Stefan

Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Alan M. Evans wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:26, Roger Leigh wrote:
> >
> > > anyone could download the latest MS compiler from the MS website,
> > > so I don't think there's any good reason to restrict yourselves to
> > > this compiler's capabilities.
> >
> >
> > Only if having Visual Studio along with your compiler isn't a good
> > reason.
>
> MSVS6 can be successfully configured to use the free compiler from 
> Microsoft. It's a bigger quest, but can be done, and has been done.
>
> Also, there are other IDE's that can work on top of MS compiler, not 
> just MSVS (and we are talking about MS VS6 here, that isn't all that 
> good compared to later versions, which already include a good enough 
> compiler for C99, I bet).
>
> Personally I use VC6 sometimes (but not for GTK+) for the reason, that 
> I'd have to otherwise ship the runtime libraries (msvcrt71.dll, etc) 
> with my installer, for the application to work on all Windows versions 
> for sure.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mart Raudsepp
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