[Insight-developers] Test programs that won't compile

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Ross-

Remember, something like 90% of the world uses Microsoft platforms. I'd 
hate to eliminate that customer base.

Will

At 05:40 PM 11/27/2000 -0700, Ross Whitaker wrote:


>The MS compiler does not support templated member functions....?
>
>Wow, that's amazing.  Templated member functions are pretty basic.
>
>I have brought this up before, and have been soundly rebuffed, but have we 
>considered supporting some other compiler that
>runs on Wndows instead of the MS compiler?
>
>Hypothetically, how bad would the MS compiler have to be for us not to 
>support it?  Suppose it only compiled C programs,
>would we just write everything in C and continue to "support" the MS compiler?
>
>If MS is *not* planning on fixing these kinds of things anyway, then why 
>we should we tie ourselves to such a compiler?
>
>I suspect that the typical "market" for this toolkit will be sophisticated 
>enough to install another compiler if they have
>to.  Don't you think so?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ross
>
>
>Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
> > On windows, all of those fail except itkBasicArchitectureTest.
> > The problem seems to be in ikNeightborhood.txx.
> > It is using a member template.
> > I know that the microsoft compiler does not support templated member 
> functions, unless they are in the class definition.
> >
>
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