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Ok, thanks for the hints. It seems I can download a precompiled version of ACE 5.5 for Windows from the Riverace page; is this free?<BR>
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Another question: say I got my hands on a later version of ACE, compiled with VC8. Do you think it could work within VC6, for my project? I think the binary formats (DLL, LIB, etc.) should not be a problem, but I am not so sure about the header files, which might have some advanced C++ usages that VC6 will choke on...<BR>
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Thanks and best regards.<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:30 -0400, Steve Huston wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi Gonzalo,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> A warm hello to everyone,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nice to hear from you!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> After a long pause, I may need to get involved on a development</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> project using ACE on Windows (2003 server).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Great!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I understand MSVC 6 support has been dropped for some time now,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> but that is what I have, so I would like to pose the following</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">questions:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What is the latest ACE version that supported compilation on MSVC 6?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">DOC 5.5.1 (the 5.5 "BFO" beta) has MSVC6. Riverace's 5.5 series also</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">has it (and will continue as long as we're doing 5.5 support).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> How long ago in time was this?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">5.5.1 was about a year ago. Riverace 5.5b was within the past couple</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of months.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If I decide to update my tools, what is the current version of MSVC</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that I should use?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">VC8 (Visual Studio .NET 2005)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Would it be possible to download a free version of MSVC from the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Internet?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Check msdn.microsoft.com - I believe there is a limited VC8 you can</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">download. I seem to recall there being some sort of SDK issue when</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">building ACE with the free version - check the ace-users archives for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I will be using a subset of ACE for my project; off the top of my</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">head:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> threads, acceptor and connector for two processes on the same</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">machine,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and maybe NT service support.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ok.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Where can I read some docs regarding how to partition ACE to only</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have this subset of functionality? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You can check ACE_wrappers/docs/subsets.html - also check ace-users</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">archives - this comes up periodically. You can use the static lib</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">build to have the linker grab only what you are using - that's</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">probably the easiest.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Good luck!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-Steve</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">--</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Steve Huston, Riverace Corporation</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Would you like ACE to run great on your platform?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">See <A HREF="http://www.riverace.com/sponsor.htm">http://www.riverace.com/sponsor.htm</A></FONT>
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