Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:

> > Get Visual C 7.1 or later and be done with it.
>
> I have always compiled POV-Ray on Windows using MinGW GCC. No problems
> at all.
>
> Last time I tried Microsoft Visual Something, I took me long to even
> figure out how to compile. And it failed anyway. And it changed two
> dozen file associations without even asking. What's worse is that they
> didn't get restored or at least deleted on uninstall, so all .c, .cpp,
> etc files were trying to open with a program that didn't exist anymore.


I am confused with more than 100 files for what seems every OS:
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/?fisel=0-9,a-z,A-Z

I am running win98SE VC6 with no problems;
what file?

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