On 2025-01-14 06:29, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
I am currently using MSVC 6.0, circa 1999
OK, but I think Microsoft supports Visual Studio for only ten years and
support for MSVC 6.0 ended in 2008[1]. tzcode is intended for current
use not computer museums, so typically it shouldn't worry about old,
unsupported developer tools.
That being said, you're in luck because there is at least one compiler
(default GCC on RHEL 7) that is still supported by its supplier and that
still doesn't have the C99 features tzcode code uses by default, and
because of this until at least July 2028 you should still be able to
compile tzcode by using the -DPORT_TO_C89 option, as described in the
Makefile and in private.h.
So it sounds like we don't need to change tzcode because of this hiccup.
[1]:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6-support-policy
