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Microsoft releases no-cost C++ compiler

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    Mike Dimmick
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    On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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      On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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      Rohde
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      That is totally excellent. Now you don't have to buy the whole VS package in order to get one of the best C++ compilers on the market. Very nice!

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        On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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        John M Drescher
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        Thanks for the info. Even though I have licences for VC.NET I think this will be good to use for batch builds as it has to have a much smaller foot print. Not having MFC may be a problem though... John

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          On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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          Matt Gullett
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          Hooray! This is good news. I have been using GCC for some automatic code generation - compilation components and it is quite buggy. This will make my life much simpler.

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            On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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            Dominik Reichl
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            Any way to extract this on Windows 98? I just wanted to see the samples...


            _outp(0x64, 0xAD); and __asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al do the same... but what do they do?? ;) (doesn't work on NT)

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              On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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              barto
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              Any way to integrate into Visual Studio 6.0 / 98 ? It would be great to be able to compile many sources that require the newer compiler because of C++ or STL conformance but not having to install the bloated .NET IDE ...

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                On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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                Jim Crafton
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                Has anyone tried this? Does it force the installation of .Net, i.e. if all I want is the C++ stuff (and don't care about .Net) can I install just that? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned

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                  Any way to integrate into Visual Studio 6.0 / 98 ? It would be great to be able to compile many sources that require the newer compiler because of C++ or STL conformance but not having to install the bloated .NET IDE ...

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                  pgrohs
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                  just set the folder of the binaries (..\bin) as first path to executables in the configuration of VC6

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                    just set the folder of the binaries (..\bin) as first path to executables in the configuration of VC6

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                    Orhun Birsoy
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                    What about the debugger? I am guessing 6.0 will not able to debug the binaries generated with this toolkit.

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                    • M Mike Dimmick

                      On Friday, Microsoft released the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]. This is basically the command-line tools from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 C++ compiler, plus Microsoft's C/C++ run-time library. No ATL or MFC, though. It doesn't appear to contain a debugger, so if you're targetting native code (rather than the .NET Framework, for which I think you can use the .NET Framework SDK debugger) you'll need the Debugging Tools for Windows[^]. (Link found on blogs.msdn.com) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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                      thx a lot .


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