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Asked: 2026-05-21T23:24:11+00:00

I have inherited a Visual Studio 6 C++ project. The project builds fine in

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I have inherited a Visual Studio 6 C++ project. The project builds fine in Visual Studio 6 but I failed to compile certain files in the project with a gcc compiler. These issues relate to forward declarations and probably other issues. For the mean-time, I’m not interested in fixing these problems since the code is horrible. The code is also windows dependant since it uses win32 to communicate with com ports.

So, I wish to compile with an ms compiler (and build and link…) but I don’t have access anymore to Visual Studio due to company policy…

What options are open to me?

THanks for your help,

Barry.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can try downloading the free (as in beer) windows SDK. It’s been a while, but I believe that these low level tools, such cl, link and make are available though these.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924

    But you probably will need to massage the code a little, so you might need to deal with the win api a little bit too.

    Just to clarify, this is free and not associated with VS, so unless your company has some rather restrictive policies, you should be able to download and use the Windows SDK fine. Furthermore, the compiler tools should be somewhat friendly to VS6.

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