by Crossware
12. April 2018 22:43
When extending the Crossware 8051, ColdFire or ARM simulators with a GUI extension, it is necessary to use the same version of Microsoft Visual Studio that was used to build the simulator itself.
All of our trialware is now built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and so this is what must be used for your extensions when using these versions.
You must build your GUI extensions using the Microsoft Foundation Classes with multi-byte rather than unicode character support.
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition is free.
The extension interface is still the same. Our Ciruit Cellar article is still good introduction and the ARM Development User Guide details the documents the API.
We are still delivering versions of our development tools built with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 since there are lot of educational users worldwide using Windows XP.
If you installer filename is 'setup.exe', then the software was built with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. If the installer is an MSI file that requires Windows 7.0 or above then the software was built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
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