On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 5:01 PM, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
The solution is to use Visual Studio 2005 which is a free download. There's still some hitches there:
- it does not use .dsp files anymore but can convert them to the new XML build files.
- in the process it loses some dll imports so you'll have to add them back manually, for each test. So it's feasible to compile individual tests but compiling all of them is a real pain.
- you'd better add _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE and _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE otherwise you'll get a ton of warnings.
I gathered that, but check out my next post, there are other roadblocks. Maybe if I use the right Windows SDK (as pointed out by John Klehm) some of these will go away.
I remember that when I was still using VC6 I regularly had to update the PSDK in order to make the conformance tests happy (but note that I had a bias towards using the PSDK headers). But at some point I became stuck because I couldn't get the new PSDKs to work with VC6. That's when I got forced to switch to VC2005.
So I'm not sure there exists a PSDK that's both recent enough for the conformance tests and compatible with VC6.