From: Larry E. Ramey (ramey++at++simcreator.com)
Date: 12/21/2004 07:51:28
Gordon,
Yes and No. The C and C++ libraries in Microsoft carry their environment strings about in static memory compiled into the dll/lib. So if you set an environment variable in code compiled by the VC7.0 compiler then try to access that variable in code compiled by the VC6.0 compiler you will not see that environment variable. (Imagine oh... say a model loader that someone else compiled. :) )
I've seen this "issue" / "feature" / "bug" happen in my code before when we were compiling SGL with 6.0 and the rest of the code with 7.0.
Not to mention the fact the #defines for telling the make system what version of the compiler change with every rev of the compiler causing all the messages on this list where performer decided it wasn't actually running on a Microsoft product and it should call fork().
/Hi
Err I'm not sure who told you this but that's no quite correct, it is
perfectly OK to mix Libs from Vc6 and vc7.0 in the same App as long as the
App is built in VC7,
What you cannot do is use VC6x to build an app that has VC7 libs
Best Regards
Gordon/
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