From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA07092; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:22:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07005 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:22:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from imailg1.svr.pol.co.uk (imailg1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.179]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8HJM1925016 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:22:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [195.92.198.123] (helo=mail17.svr.pol.co.uk) by imailg1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17rNv6-000592-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:22:00 +0100 Received: from modem-70.armenelos.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.125.70] helo=pomello.bowsher.foo) by mail17.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17rNv4-0005km-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:21:58 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=pomello) by pomello.bowsher.foo with smtp (Exim 4.05) id H2LKJ4-0001IG-00; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:23:28 +0100 Message-ID: <014801c25e7f$b3418bb0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:23:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Mark Brady wrote: > Hello, > Microsoft offer their C++ compiler (non optimised version) for free download (no IDE just the SDK) as part of the Dot Net SDK > download. > > As this seems to be free for most people and for most uses (even commercial) does anybody know if OCaml will work with it or does > it only work with the older VC++ 6.0 compiler (it's the VC++ 7.0 compiler that's available for download)? > > Here is the link to the MS SDK: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/m sdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true > > Any replies would be very welcome. You know that as of 3.06, you can compile ocaml for MinGW using Cygwin, so getting an optimized, native build of ocaml on Windows? There really is no reason to use Microsoft's compiler. See OCaml's README.win32 Max. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners