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

[Alin]

Christian Schulte <cschulte at ...> writes:

> 
> Actually, when I tried to compile Gecode with MSVC 2005 there were way more
> errors than that (even central parts of the kernel would have to be
> rewritten in order to compile as there seems to be a quirk with friend
> declarations).
> 
> So the difference is between _compiling_ and _using_ Gecode with MSVC 2005. 
> 
> If you send me a patch I could add that to the trunk of Gecode but I would
> still not say that 2005 is supported (actually, we just added a check in
> Gecode's configure script that makes it barf if it does not find MSVC 2008
> or better).
> 
> Cheers
> Christian
> 

I failed to notice that I have MSVC 2005 with SP1 and this is why I can compile
the code.

Sorry for making such a fuss about it...