[M3devel] NT386 problem with C runtime/tools versions

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
> I just discovered that..well..if the user has a different version of  
>  Visual C++ tools/libraries than the distribution is built  
> with..many  scenarios don't work -- e.g. not using build_standalone.
> It should have worked better.
> Until/unless I work out something better here, I'd suggest we build   
> multiple releases, one for each likely to be used toolset. 8.0/2005   
> and 9.0/2008 are probably a good mix currently.
>
>
> I guess in some ways this isn't surprising, IF any of the Modula-3   
> libraries traffic in either FILE* (fopen/fread/fwrite/fclose) or   
> "int file" (open/close/read/write), but they might not. Or   
> malloc/free, which they might. We might consider ensuring the   
> untraced heap is via HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap()) in order to be   
> independent of the C runtime -- in general the C runtime   
> dependencies probably can/should be limited, but this is another   
> topic, another release.

Please add these topics in trac to the roadmap for the next release.

Olaf
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