Re: Compilation problems with latest MSVC

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It seems like latest versions of MSVC are incompatible with the Emacs
> build procedure (MSVC 6 compiles the current CVS just fine).  See the
> error messages below; this is with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition,
> the MS ``freeware'' distribution.
> 
> I could try working on these when I have time, but the question is: do
> we care?  Is it enough to say that the last version of MSVC we support
> is v6?  (Does anyone know if Studio 7 is okay?)


I think it would be good to be able to compile with MSVC 7 too. I 
sometimes wonder if strange problems I see have something to do with 
bugs in the gcc compiler.

I am not saying that there are any problems with the gcc compiler. The 
problems I see are stability problems on my pc. I hoped they would be 
gone with my new pc using xp, but I have seen some problems again. Of 
course I have no idea which program causes this, but it would be fine to 
sometimes be able to run Emacs compiled with MSVC and see if that makes 
any difference. (The instabilities are very rare however so it is very 
hard to find out what is wrong. Probably some resource problem.)