Re: VS2005 Building Against Old Runtime

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2008/9/9 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> The complications of the various VS runtimes have been the object of
> discussion recently, so I've tried to get VS2005 to build against
> MSVCRT.dll, using a minimal CRT startup written by Matt Pietrek.  This
> is a useful strategy to get the results of a good compiler without the
>  crazy runtime dependencies; it started with me following up the idea
> that a new runtime would be a good thing, but man, msvcrt has got most
> of the goodies already.There were naturally a number of obscure issues
> to track down, apart from the ones I already had identified (e.g. it
> will complain about '_difftime64' not being found, etc)
>
> Just managed to get a functioning Lua build using this setup . If
> anybody's interested, I'll post a makefile and the minimal setup code
> needed to get this going.

IIRC someone mentionned on this list that msvcrt.dll is a poor
alternative for a newer MSVC runtime because it has a very slow malloc
implementation. Did you perform some Lua benchmark with this new build
method ?