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Re: Windows Line Endings [WAS Re: [SCM] GNU Libtool branch, master, upda
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Charles Wilson |
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Re: Windows Line Endings [WAS Re: [SCM] GNU Libtool branch, master, updated. v2.4.2-273-ge24f183] |
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Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:24:59 -0400 |
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On 10/5/2012 12:03 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> And thanks for looking into it. Is there a legal way to get access
> to Windows and the various flavours of gcc and MSVC that libtool users
> care about, without spending hundreds of dollars on software I would
> never use for anything else?
Yes.
MS routinely provides virtual machine images for their OS's for testers
to use. Naturally they are in VHD format for the windows-hosted
VirtualPC product...
WinXP, WinVista, Win7 (90 days [*])
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575
[*] XP image has a hard-coded expiration date, and they usually upload a
new version with a bumped expiry every so often. Current expiry is 13
Nov 2012. Vista and 7 are rolling expiration: 90 days from first activation.
Windows Server 2012 (180 days)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh708764.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=MEC_110_1_33
Windows 8 (90 days)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
...but you can run them on linux using VirtualBox:
http://www.geekpowers.com/?p=121
After that, you can install into the virtual environment the free (as in
beer) Visual Studio Express of your choice; right now 2010 and 2012beta
seem to be available. Requires "free" as in beer registration to use
past 30 days.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads
Note that after installing VSexpress, you have to install separately the
Windows SDK -- or at least that used to be required with the old 2005
and 2008 versions. Dunno about 2010/2012.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8442
The expiration thing causes an annoyance "redo" factor if you only mess
with this stuff once every six months and find you have to recreate
everything each time. But...it doesn't cost any money.
--
Chuck
- Re: Windows Line Endings, (continued)
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Roumen Petrov, 2012/10/07
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Peter Rosin, 2012/10/08
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Roumen Petrov, 2012/10/08
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Peter Rosin, 2012/10/09
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Roumen Petrov, 2012/10/09
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/10/09
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Peter Rosin, 2012/10/10
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Gary V. Vaughan, 2012/10/06
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Gary V. Vaughan, 2012/10/06
- Re: Windows Line Endings, Peter Rosin, 2012/10/06
- Re: Windows Line Endings [WAS Re: [SCM] GNU Libtool branch, master, updated. v2.4.2-273-ge24f183],
Charles Wilson <=