[Openib-windows] DDK to be used

[Fabian Tillier]

Hi Leonid,

On 3/22/06, Fabian Tillier <ftillier at silverstorm.com> wrote:
> Hi Leonid,
>
> On 3/22/06, Leonid Keller <leonid at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> > I think, the right solution is to use Vista WDK: they have there
> > compilers of 14 major version (both x86 and x64).
>
> Let me look into this, I think you're right that it might be the right
> way to go.

I looked into it, and my conclusion is unfortunately that we should
stick with the Windows Server 2003 SP1 DDK.

One of the criteria for the Windows project, and one which came under
quite a bit of debate when creating the project, was the issue of
build environment costs and barriers to entry.  The current DDK can be
ordered from Microsoft at no cost, while the Vista WDK is not yet
released and thus only available through MSDN subscriptions, at a
cost.

It's important to keep barriers to entry as low as possible, so as to
encourage community participation.  I know this seems silly given
who's actually participating, but it's part of what we set out to do
in creating this project.

When I ran into issues like this before, I disabled optimizations on
those functions that exhibited problems, using #pragma optimize.  Can
we use a solution like this until the Vista WDK (or some other DDK
update) becomes publicly available?

- Fab