From b7cec01ce2c17878b234e045ef74d6df44ed7bec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Zdenko=20Podobn=C3=BD?= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:09:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] remove info about VS 2008 --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 16860838fa..b932974397 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Please use the installer (for 3.00 and above). Tesseract is a library with a command line interface. If you need a GUI, please check the [3rdParty wiki page](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/3rdParty#gui). If you are building from the sources, the recommended build platform is -VC++ Express 2008 (optionally 2010). +VC++ Express 2010. The executables are built with static linking, so they stand more chance of working out of the box on more Windows systems. @@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado between 1985 and 1994, with some more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998. A lot of the code was written in C, and then some more was written in C++. Since then all the code has been converted to at least compile with a C++ -compiler. Currently it builds under Linux with gcc4.4.3 and under Windows -with VC++2008. The C++ code makes heavy use of a list system using macros. +compiler. Currently it builds under Linux with gcc 4.4.3 and under Windows +with VC++2010. The C++ code makes heavy use of a list system using macros. This predates stl, was portable before stl, and is more efficient than stl lists, but has the big negative that if you do get a segmentation violation, it is hard to debug.