[vtkusers] Compiling VTK with free MSVC++ download

[David Gobbi]

Hi All,

Today I tried compiling VTK with the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit,
which was recently made available for free download:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

So far no luck, though.  It can't build C++ .dll libraries because
it lacks the necessary msvcprt.lib and msvcprtd.lib libraries, and
it can't build static .lib files because it lacks the lib.exe executable.

It looks like the free MSVC toolkit can be only be used to build
executables, not libraries, so building VTK with it is not possible.

Has anyone else made the attempt?

 - David