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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is getting hard to find.  Official links to download it from Microsoft are disappearing, although hidden direct links can still be found at the moment.

[u]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4482159/where-can-i-download-visual-studio-express-2008-not-2010[/u]

For this and other reasons, among them that I wish to use the SDK that comes with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit, I wish to be able to compile the API with GNU tools.  What sort of effort would this entail?

Best regards,

Kevin Hicks
TeraSys Technologies, Honolulu

Hello Kevin,
VS2010/2012 should be able to compile with a bit of extra efforts. I am not sure what would be the efforts in order to use our api in a GNU environment.
Best Regards,
Arnaud

Thanks for the reply.  In my sad experience, "a little extra effort" to make a process work with different tools can become a nightmare that lasts for days.  In addition, while VS 2008 is still available for free, VS 2010/2012 are very expensive and requiring them to use your software amounts to a hidden cost to your customers.

Best wishes,

Kevin

Kevin,
Actually just download 'http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng#products/visual-studio-2010-express' and you are good to go
Best Regards,
Arnaud

Wonderful!  I had no idea there was an express verison of VS 2010.

So far, by the way, I'm having a lot of fun and success with the FMC150, Stellar-IP and the Xilinx environment.  Thanks!

Kevin