[gecode-users] Which version of MSVC on Windows?

[Alin]

Christian Schulte <cschulte at ...> writes:

> 
> Please read MPG which contains detailed build instructions for Windows.
> 
> But the MSVC 2008 packages should work with MSVC 2005. Did you try? If you
> failed what was the issue?
> 
> Best
> Christian
> 


I did try it, I configured MSVC 2005 the same as I configured MSVC 2008.
(i configured the include/lib folders) and in MSVC 2008 it works just fine,
while in MSVC 2005 i get errors when compiling the same code

maybe this helps indentify the problem:

c:\program files\gecode\include\gecode\driver\options.hpp(370) : error C2666:
'Gecode::Support::DynamicArray::operator []' : 
3 overloads have similar conversions
        with
        [
            T=Gecode::Gist::Inspector *,
            A=Gecode::Heap
        ]
        c:\program files\gecode\include\gecode\support\dynamic-array.hpp(72):
could be 'Gecode::Gist::Inspector &Gecode::Support::DynamicArray::operator
[](int) const'
        with
        [
            T=Gecode::Gist::Inspector *,
            A=Gecode::Heap
        ]
        c:\program files\gecode\include\gecode\support\dynamic-array.hpp(70): 
or 'Gecode::Gist::Inspector &Gecode::Support::DynamicArray::operator [](int)'
        with
        [
            T=Gecode::Gist::Inspector *,
            A=Gecode::Heap
        ]
        or 'built-in C++ operator[(Gecode::Gist::Inspector **, unsigned int)'
        while trying to match the argument list
 '(Gecode::Support::DynamicArray, unsigned int)'
        with
        [
            T=Gecode::Gist::Inspector *,
            A=Gecode::Heap
        ]
c:\program files\gecode\include\gecode\driver\options.hpp(374) : 
error C2666: 'Gecode::Support::DynamicArray::operator []' : 
3 overloads have similar conversions
        with
        [
            T=Gecode::Gist::Comparator *,
            A=Gecode::Heap
        ]