Re: New user objecting to using stolen software

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

> The complete Visual Studio has to be purchased, but you can
> download the command line tools without the graphical frontend for
> free from http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/.

Please note that this download doesn't include the import library for
the C library you should use, msvcrt.dll. It also doesn't include the
headers and import libraries for the Win32 API, but those come with
the also freely downloadable Platform SDK.

Still, I would recommend sticking to gcc and GNU tools (i.e., mingw
and MSYS). Gcc compiles slower than MSVC, but on modern machines, it
shouldn't matter that much.

--tml