Dropping support for Visual Studio 2008 in master branch

[Michael Stahl]

On 29/05/13 16:28, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Tor,
> 
> Tor Lillqvist schrieb:
>> Unless somebody can give a *really* good reason, I plan to explicitly
>> drop support for building the master branch with MSVS 2008 soon.
>>
>> It might be that this support was already unintentionally broken earlier
>> today or yesterday, and it would be easiest to just follow up and do it
>> completely.
>>
>> Note that already the TDF 4.0 build has been built with MSVS 2010.
> 
> Is a build possible with the Express version, on Windows 7, so that it 
> includes ATL?

most likely nobody here has tried if the trick with the DDK works with
MSVC 2010 or 2012 as well - other replies indicate not many are aware
that it was even possible.  but chances are good since presumably it's
just some headers and .lib files that just need to be put on compiler's
search path.