POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Help with the basics: Compiling with MingW: Re: Help with the basics: Compiling with MingW

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From: David Wallace
Date: 27 Apr 2005 16:27:07
Message: <426ff59b@news.povray.org>

Ryan Lamansky wrote:
> Boumboum34 wrote:
> 
>> I'm brand new to MingW (though not to C/C++ programming)--so new I 
>> have to
>> run MingW in a DOS box (what? A Windows 32 compiler that runs, not in
>> Windows, but DOS? Whoa....).
> 
> 
> Uh... maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with Visual Studio?
> 
> VC++ 2005 Express is free and should do the job.
> 
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/default.aspx
> 
> -Ryan

I got VS 2003 via a software reseller -- if someone has the source I can try 
compiling it.  My box is an Athlon XP 2.0 GHz with 1 GB DDR, which is plenty for 
compiling and adequate for basic raytracing.  I will need somewhere to upload 
it, though...

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