On 1 February 2012 04:30, <rappard at dds.nl> wrote:> It's been a while since I've worked with Visual Studio, so some dumb > questions ahead. To start: should I use > http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express, > or something else?That's a fine place to start if you have windows but don't already have a copy of the microsoft compiler. -r -- Ralph Giles Xiph.org Foundation for open multimedia
>> It's been a while since I've worked with Visual Studio, so some dumb >> questions ahead. To start: should I use >> http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express, >> or something else? > > That's a fine place to start if you have windows but don't already > have a copy of the microsoft compiler.Just checked, and I already have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable" installed - probably part of the cruft of Windows Update. Will try with that first.
Hi,
In article <CACpHt-uYyjzcC=h2ujDO5ZEcaRQqNvgb-0J=7p1MAXZ+GbUpmg at
mail.gmail.com>,
rappard at dds.nl<rappard at dds.nl>
wrote:> Just checked, and I already have "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
> Redistributable" installed - probably part of the cruft of Windows
> Update. Will try with that first.
That's just the runtime, installed as part of the OS I think.
Won't help you compiling stuff.
Andy
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:50 -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:> > It's been a while since I've worked with Visual Studio, so some dumb > > questions ahead. To start: should I use > > http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express, > > or something else? > > That's a fine place to start if you have windows but don't already > have a copy of the microsoft compiler.It's probably worth pointing out that Audacity has a working windows build from the last released Flac sources in it's SVN repo: http://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk#trunk %2Flib-src%2Flibflac and the project file here http://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk#trunk %2Fwin%2FProjects%2Flibflac%253Fstate%253Dclosed These are VS express 2007 I think, but should upgrade to 2010 fine. Richard