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MSVC 6 caveats
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- If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition PSDK:
- http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
+ If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition of
+ the 'Platform SDK' which can be downloaded from:
+
+ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261
Building any software with MSVC 6 without having PSDK installed is just
asking for trouble down the road once you have released it, you might notice
@@ -261,8 +263,6 @@ Win32
choice of static vs dynamic runtime and third party libraries. Anyone using
software built in such way will at some point regret having done so.
- When someone uses MSVC 6 without PSDK he is using a compiler back from 1998.
-
If the compiler has been updated with the installation of a service pack as
those mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022 the compiler can be
safely used to read source code, translate and make it object code.
@@ -272,13 +272,6 @@ Win32
header files and libraries with bugs and security issues which have already
been addressed and fixed long time ago.
- In order to make use of the updated system headers and fixed libraries
- for MSVC 6, it is required that 'Platform SDK', PSDK from now onwards,
- is installed. The specific PSDK that must be installed for MSVC 6 is the
- February 2003 edition, which is the latest one supporting the MSVC 6 compiler,
- this PSDK is also known as 'Windows Server 2003 PSDK' and can be downloaded
- from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
-
So, building curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK is absolutely
discouraged for the benefit of anyone using software built in such
environment. And it will not be supported in any way, as we could just