[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9433) Patch: MSVC compile fixes

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9433 >

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> Who cares about MSVC? If you like closed source and Microsoft Visual
> Studio, then get the Intel C++ compiler v8.0. That has C99 support.
>
> I don't think we should be supporting broken compilers. So Microsoft
> wants everyone to port to C# and is deprecating C/C++. Why should I care?
>
> Especially when there are lots of working alternatives for the platform.
> GCC 3.4 which is free, Intel C++ v8.0 which is the best performing compiler.

I'm inclined to agree. It is possible to plug the Intel compiler into
Visual Studio? If so, we should put this tip in a doc somewhere.

  - Per