MSVC compilation trouble / optlibs

What version(s) of MSVC can be used to compile XEmacs? I've tried 6.0, 8.0, and 9.0. With 6.0, I get several instances of "error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __ftol2". All were related to libraries from optlibs. Googling showed that this was probably an indication that a newer version of MSVC was needed. With 8.0, I get a similar error about "__iob": This one seems to be a possible indication that this version of MSVC is too new for this library. With 9.0, I get a parser error: No idea what that's about... (I did remember to do "nmake -f xemacs.mak clean" before each attempt.) Anyway, it seems that the optlibs libraries are closely tied to the particular MSVC version used, so maybe you should always include the MSVC version in the filename from now on, and provide versions for different releases of MSVC, preferably in a listable directory (rather than under http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/, which seems to have an index.html file) I would try and build the libraries myself, but I know from experience that that's *not* fun, mostly because the MSVC project format seems to change incompatibly with every new release -- it's enough to make autocrap seem quite elegant indeed! (It doesn't help that I don't have a usable copy of the MSVC 6 IDE, so I can't use MSVC 6 project files.) It's also possible that my use of BUILD_FOR_SETUP_KIT=1 along with DEBUG_XEMACS=1 is somehow screwing things up, I guess. The reason for the former is that I'll want to install to my USB drive, and it wouldn't do for such an installation to require a debugging MSVC runtime -- random computers at school are probably not going to have it available. P.S. There were also some warnings about conversions from __time64_t or time_t to long with MSVC 8 and 9. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta