win32 ocamlopt version 3.09.3 compatible with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

win32 ocamlopt version 3.09.3 compatible with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

[Eliot Handelman]

Hi,


according to README.win32 ( 
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.09/notes/README.win32 ) ocaml 
v. 3.09.3 was
compiled with  Visual C++ 2003, and ocamlopt is only supposed to work 
with that. In the meanwhile, VC 2003
has been replaced with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition 
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336427.aspx). Before I
go to the trouble of removing visual c 6 & installing the above, would 
someone happen to know whether ocamlopt v. 3.09.3 works
with the 2005 compiler? If not, pointers to where I can get the MS 2003 
components needed would be much appreciated.

many thanks,

-- eliot

Re: [Caml-list] win32 ocamlopt version 3.09.3 compatible with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

[skaller]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:54 -0400, Eliot Handelman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> according to README.win32 ( 
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.09/notes/README.win32 ) ocaml 
> v. 3.09.3 was
> compiled with  Visual C++ 2003, and ocamlopt is only supposed to work 
> with that. In the meanwhile, VC 2003
> has been replaced with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition 
> (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336427.aspx). Before I
> go to the trouble of removing visual c 6 & installing the above, would 
> someone happen to know whether ocamlopt v. 3.09.3 works
> with the 2005 compiler? If not, pointers to where I can get the MS 2003 
> components needed would be much appreciated.

Yes it does, on XP32 ** Ocaml also builds fine as 64 bit on XP64,
however some C libraries contain 'long is 64 bit' bugs (which I 
have reported but which haven't been acknowledged for months,
which is fairly poor behaviour IMHO). Nums library is affected by 
such bugs.

** actually I have built with VS2005 full edition, but the
compiler is the same in the Express edition.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net