[clisp-list] MS-VC users out there?

[Hoehle, Joerg-C. <Joe...@t-...>]

Hi,

am I the only user with a MS-VC6 installation & interest in CLISP?

I'd like to know, because it may very well happen that MS-VC support =
gets rapidly dropped, visible in the unability to build the FFI (esp. =
ffcall) with MS-VC and afterwards possibly nobody caring for MS-VC =
patches in the main trunk of CLISP...
That's pure theory. I'm not the maintainer.

Reasons:
o Since MS-VC7, the change in the MS license prohibits redistribution =
of files needed to comply with GPL, I've heard (from what I understood, =
the startup code/dll is at cause).  Cf. clisp/win32msvc/INSTALL
MS-VC6 is not affected.  The copyright was different.  The library is =
different.
Who has MS-VC6?
Who has MS-VC7 and uses it to buid a personal, non redistributable =
clisp, and an interest in continued ability to do so?

o All GNU efforts on MS-Windows head at -mingw, gcc infrastructure etc. =
 That's what ffcall supports.  GNU is where ffcall feels at home :)

I'm no lawyer, and all the above is my paraphrasing.

Why am I asking anyway?  I'm going to make changes to the FFI to =
restore/install support for LONG LONG types.  MS-VC has __int64 instead =
of long long.  ffcall does not support that, and I'm not going to add =
that myself.  Independently, the FFI needs some changes in that area =
and I'd like to know whether to invest time to find out how to still =
make things work with MS-VC, or drop it RSN (which would cost me *much =
less time* -- in fact, code is there on HD, but lacking smoe testing).

Regards,
	J=F6rg H=F6hle.