What's the oldest MS VC version Parrot should built with?

[Vadim Konovalov]

在 Thursday 18 December 2008 22:43:29，Ron Blaschke 写道：
> Vadim Konovalov wrote:
> > the more compilers the better, especially if there is already a support
> > for it dropping it wouldn't be a win.
>
> I agree there's some value to variation, but supporting every compiler
> in every version is not desirable, and most end users don't, and
> shouldn't, care.  For example, I don't, and shouldn't, care which
> compiler Firefox, Python or Tcl on my box were compiled with, and I
> doubt they are all compiled with the same.  I'd be surprised, actually.

it would be not a desired thing if resulting binary will use more than one 
CRT. Fortunately it is easy to see what DLLs are needed by binary.

But there is another point: one of the widely used compilers on Win32 is GCC 
in "no-cygwin" mode, which is ordinary GCC in cygwin but it will create 
binaries dependant on VC6 CRT, AFAIK.

It would be a pity to lose a possibility to create binary on the same CRT.


> > I will provide my help in supporting VC6.
>
> If you're committed to that platform, that's quite fine with me.

Best regards,
Vadim