Issac Goldstand wrote:
>  -0.5
>  
>  I would actually like to see builds prepared against MSVCRT80, which is
>  available in the Vista SDK's bundled free compiler, rather than having
>  users need to download the SDK + VS Express Edition + configure the one
>  to find and work with the other (a royal pain).  As long as the latest
>  SDKs are bundled with compilers (for x86, amd64 and even the ia64 for
>  those who find that useful) there's no reason not to keep the build
>  procedure as simple as possible for those of us *cough* who prefer not
>  to buy a new VS suite every time MS feels like trying to send me one :-)

As I mentioned in my lead post, it seems the Express compiler will be
coming along with each release.

I doubt the SDK alone is going to solve the issue.  I just reviewed it,
and found in 6.1 two sets of the includes (perhaps our missing msvcrt.dll
headers as well as VC9 headers?) and msvcrt.lib bound for msvcr90.dll
I think SDK 6.1 is the longhorn flavor (offhand).

An interesting observation, the DDK includes the msvcrt.lib as well as
that flavors headers, resolving my issue that they would not be available
(as it's becoming impossible to obtain VC6).

There's no /need/ to buy the VS suite if the VS Express solves the issue.
I need to check if VS Express 2008 includes the SDK headers they omitted
(unwisely, IMHO) from VS Express 2005.