Re: Visual studio version and Compling Dia for Windows

[Steffen Macke <sdteffen gmail com>]

Hi,

> Looking at http://dia-installer.de/howto/compile_msvc/index.html.
> It only listed VC++ Version 6 as the compiler.
>
> Does anyone tried the Visual Studion Express 2008 or 2003 (The free beginner
> version) ?

The reason to use MSVC 6 is to avoid recompilation of all the
underlying libraries.
Such recompilation would be necessary to avoid C runtime mismatch problems.

This is basically explained in

http://dia-installer.de/howto/compile_msvc/ar01s08.html#compiler

Besides this, compilation with the new compilers should work.

Regards,

Steffen