[sldev] Visual Studio 2003

[Brad Kittenbrink (Brad Linden)]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> On 1/27/09 9:43 AM, Anna Gulaev wrote:
>   
>> I tried building my ancient viewer and the build failed, and rather
>> than figuring out what kind of bit rot is causing this I thought I'd
>> just start fresh with the 1.22 source, but I see LL has moved on to
>> Visual Studio 2005. Is is still possible to build the latest viewers
>> using VS2003?
>>     
>
> You can try, but probably not.  I'm pretty sure that the move to VS2005
> entailed some dependency updates that would make it pretty difficult to
> keep using VS2003, and you'll almost certainly be out of luck if you're
> planning on relying on the precompiled libraries we provide.
>
> Rob
>
>   
In particular, during the last update to llmozlib the binary was not 
updated for vs2003.  If you disabled llmozlib, or tried using an older 
llmozlib package, it might still work.  However, going forward, we'll 
likely not be maintaining vs2003 library packages.

-Brad