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  Re: Compile 3.6 source on VC6?  
From: Thies Heidecke
Date: 30 Sep 2004 14:41:58
Message: <415c5376$1@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news: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.
>

which you can get for free here, just in case you didn't know:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

Thies


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