Re: [Libusb-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Incorporate more feedback

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Michael Plante
<mic...@gm...> wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>>> On the other hand, there is an alternative to WDK -- MSVC 6.0
>>> will not need the VC runtime. Unlike MSVC2003/2005/2008/2010,
>>> binaries built with MSVC 6.0 will run from Win2k onwards without
>>> any runtime.
>
>
> I'm not sure what is meant by this.  They will link with msvcrt[d].dll.
> Maybe you mean the sxs stuff that Graeme has referenced?  That said, how
> much longer until cmake drops support like premake and some others have?
> Anyway, like Pete mentioned, no x64...  Interestingly, x64 support still
> isn't up to snuff in VS2010, so I'm not sure I'd switch to x64 unless I
> really needed it.
>

The main advantage of WDK compared to VC200x is that it generates
binaries linked to msvcrt.dll which is a system component (shipped
with Windows OS). VC6.0 also generates binaries linked to msvcrt.dll
(albeit with older version). MinGW also build C binaries which is linked
to msvcrt.dll (but not the C++ which needs a dll specific to MinGW
for exception handling).

As for 64bit compiler for the free Visual C++ Express 2010, you can
use Windows SDK's 64bit compiler.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s.aspx



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Xiaofan