Re: [freesci-develop] State of Glutton on Win32

[Walter van Niftrik]

Hello Hugues,

it's good to hear from you again.

I agree that there's no need to drop VC++ support as long as we have 
someone on the team willing to maintain it.

Hugues Valois wrote:

> It's true that Visual Studio (the suite) can be expensive.  But to 
> compile FreeSCI you only need Visual C++.  You can purchase Visual C++ 
> 2003 Standard Edition for 89$US at amazon.com.  It's not free, but I 
> wouldn't qualify that as "very expensive software".

Matt pointed out to me that in order to build FreeSCI, you can use the 
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, which can be downloaded for free from the 
Microsoft website. That is a recent development I wasn't aware of.

Regards,

Walter