POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Compile 3.6 source on VC6?: Re: Compile 3.6 source on VC6?

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 27 Sep 2004 03:12:42
Message: <4157bd6a$1@news.povray.org>

In article <41572098$1@news.povray.org> , "Pontius" <mfb### [at] mchsicom> 
wrote:

> I see that the windows source for version 3.6 only comes with project files
> for Visual Studio .NET.
>
> I only have VS 6.
>
> Has anyone tried compiling it with VC6? If so, is there somewhere to
> download the workspace/project files? I've looked around and couldn't find
> a

POV-Ray will not compile because the VC 6 compiler does not support all
standard features of C++.  VC 6 is very old (six years iirc).  You will need
VC 7.1 (aka VC 2003) to compile the POV-Ray source code.

    Thorsten

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