[Insight-developers] MS compiler

[Ross Whitaker]

Forwarded from a student in our group...

"Microsoft has a new Visual Studio that supports an ISO/ANSI compliant 
C++ compiler.  The official release is Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual 
Studio 7.1.  It is currently in "final beta", not exactly sure what this 
means but I am told it is basically the release version, which is due out 
in a few months. Those of you who have used visual studio know what a 
pain it is to port code to windows :(  As far as I can tell that should be 
fixed now. I have tried the compiler on a bunch of my trouble spots and 
found that it performs as expected.  This includes subtle C++ tricks like 
partial template specialization, not to metion a real implementation of 
the C++ stdlib (std template lib).  The school of computing has an MSDN 
subscription which provides the install for this version of Visual Studio, 
you can send email to support if you want to acquire it.  I also have a 
copy of the install, which you can get from me.  Naturally, you run a risk 
that something could be broken with a "beta" release, but I think that the 
older compilers are broken anyway, still, use at your own risk.  You can 
have this version co-exist with older versions of Visual Studio, including 
.NET 2002 (or whatever it's called). "

Ross



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