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AMT_PE 06 - Using Microsoft Visual C with AMT_PE 1.2 (1-Aug-95)

Q Which is the recommended version of Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) for compiling Windows versions of Apple Media Tool/Programming Environment 1.2 projects? There are three different versions of MSVC available from Microsoft: 1.0, 1.5 and 2.1.

A You can use either Microsoft Visual C 1.0 or 1.5. The main differences between MSVC 1.0 and 1.5 are in the Foundation Class Library, which AMTPE 1.2 doesn't use. The C compiler and the linker required by AMT/PE are the same for either version 1.0 or 1.5.

If you want to be Windows 95 optimized, you will probably want to get the latest version of MSVC. MSVC 2.1 lets you compile in flat 32 bit mode. (Yes, there will be 32-bit versions of the AMT/AMTPE Runtime libraries for Windows in a future release of AMT/AMPTE).

If you are only using Apple Media Tool, you can use the Runtime Maker application included with AMT 1.2 to create Windows runtimes; you do not need MSVC.

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