I for one fully agree with this, i'm not going to install msvc, for the
simple fact, I don't own it. I'm not even planning on purchasing it. Why
rely on a commercial compiler, when there are viable freeware compilers
easily obtainable out there that work as well if not better(IMHO) than msvc?
(bcc5.5, and cygwin/gcc for example).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lester@... [mailto:lester@...]
> Sent: Saturday, 14 April 2001 4:41 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] Compiler Problems
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> > As this is a support list for InterBase and its children, this
> thread appears to be well off-topic for this list.
> >
> > Please post your problem to a more appropriate forum, e.g
> delphi@....
>
> It's a little off-topic, but it has come about because of
> Interbase. When will we be able to compile Firebird? I do
> not intend putting VC6 onto my machine, and yet I am told that I
> need it to do my own build.
>
> The fix to this seems to be to eliminate VC6 from the Firebird
> build requirements? Then a few more of us may be able
> to contribute directly.
>
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