Building on Win 2008

[Kelly O'Hair]

Phil's understanding is also mine.

I don't doubt that at some time in the future these two products might
be different builds, due to patches and so forth, but as I read all the
web pages, they should be in fact the same actual compiler and optimizer.
It's some of the fluff around the edges that is missing, like ATL and MFC,
and maybe performance feedback optimization (which we do not use).

-kto


Phil Race wrote:
> 
> 
> Erik Trimble wrote:
>> I know there's been a lot of exploration on this topic, as yes, being 
>> able to use just the free MS SDK and the free Visual Studio versions 
>> would make it very nice.  Unfortunately, the free version of VS is 
>> actually _very_ different than the Professional version, and not just 
>> the compiler itself (which, has a whole 'nother set of bugs unique to 
>> it...).
> 
> I don't recall any such data on bugs. It is supposed to be the same 
> compiler,
> with the same optimiser. Should be bug for bug compatible to the
> extent the functionalities overlap.
> 
> If you have data to the contrary could you share it?
> 
> -phil.