"Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev / bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:000801c14c15$767d1e60$665e0cc3 / p32... > Why not use ANSI C and free Microsoft Platform SDK? > Every C compiler would "understand" ANSI C. > Problem is not compilation but runtime compatibility, you need to be able to use an extension without having to recompile it. Benoit PS: By the way I don't think the sdk includes a compiler and a linker just the headers and some doc but I'm not sure