Re: Windows Tools

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:18, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> At work, I've been tasked with providing some Windows connection
> >> libraries, etc.  Are people still using MinGW, or should I just
> >> recommend using a proprietary toolkit to do the builds?  If so,
> >> which one(s)?
> >
> > Visual C++ 2005 for 8.3/8.4 or 2008 for 9.0. You can use the free
> > "Express" versions, but you'll need the Windows SDK as well with
> > those (also free). Setup info is in the docs - note that it can be
> > a little painful to get the SDK fully registered with 2005, but it
> > seems to be completely automatic with 2008.
>
> If you download the latest SDK, you don't even need Visual C++
> Express - you can build directly from the SDK. Assuming you don't
> *want* the IDE, of course...

Here are a few of the things I'd rather have than that IDE:

* Root canal therapy without anaesthesia
* Migraine
* Windows for my desktop

Fortunately, it looks like I'll get none of the above for this project :)

Cheers,
David.
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