[Openib-windows] DDK to be used

[Leonid Keller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftillier.sst at gmail.com [mailto:ftillier.sst at gmail.com] 
> On Behalf Of Fabian Tillier
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:39 AM
> To: Leonid Keller
> Cc: openib-windows at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [Openib-windows] DDK to be used
> 
> 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?

We'll start this way and see what it "costs".

> 
> - Fab
>