[LLVMdev] VC++: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No suchfileor directory

[Jeff Cohen]

Henrik Bach wrote:

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Jeff Cohen <jeffc at jolt-lang.org>
> Reply-To: jeffc at jolt-lang.org,        LLVM Developers Mailing List 
> <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] VC++: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': 
> No    suchfileor directory
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:05:39 -0800
>
>> Out of curiosity, did it accept the solution and project files as is, 
>> or did it want to "upgrade" >them?  If the latter, I cannot accept 
>> any patches for those files because they would break VC++ >7.1 (which 
>> in turn broke 7.0, which in turn broke 6.x).
>
>
> No, it didn't take the project files out of the box. It insisted to 
> upgrade the soulution and project files.
>
> Henrik.

Groan...  it's bad enough they keep breaking backwards compatibility, 
but what's much worse is that the upgrade is never 100% correct.  Builds 
are broken in subtle and hard to track down ways.  It's why VS upgrades 
get put off for as long as possible.  I won't even think of upgrading to 
Whidbey until several years after its release.