[Octave-cvsupdate] SF.net SVN: octave: [4877] trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc/README.txt .in

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Revision: 4877
          http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/octave/?rev=4877&view=rev
Author:   goffioul
Date:     2008-04-07 05:16:37 -0700 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008)

Log Message:
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Add some notes about MSVC2008

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc/README.txt.in

Modified: trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc/README.txt.in
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--- trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc/README.txt.in	2008-04-07 10:16:11 UTC (rev 4876)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/msvc/README.txt.in	2008-04-07 12:16:37 UTC (rev 4877)
@@ -18,11 +18,20 @@
 To build OCT or MEX files from their sources requires that a compiler
 is installed. Ideally this should be the same compiler version as has
 been used to compile this package. This version of Octave has been
-compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0, which is available for free
-download from
+compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (aka 2005), which is available
+for free download from
 
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/
 
+Note: The current Visual C++ version is 9.0 (aka 2008), but this version
+cannot be used with the octave package. However, the previous version of
+the compiler can still be downloaded from
+
+http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7B0B0339-613A-46E6-AB4D-080D4D4A8C4E&displaylang=en
+
+Please be sure to use the same compiler version as the one used to
+create the binary package.
+
 Visual C++ can not be distributed with Octave due to licensing
 restrictions on redistribution. Once Visual C++ is installed, then
 OCT files can be compiled from the Octave prompt with the "mkoctfile"


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