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Which Windows SDK is the latest compatible with Visual Studio 97 and Windows 9x


I'd like to recompile an old source code of a development program which requires tools inside Visual Studio 97.

I was a little confused if all the Windows 95/98/ME SDKs delivered after Visual Studio 6.0 are compatible with Visual studio 97. I do have a windows 98 DDK, but out of experience I know the proper SDK should be installed first.

I would like to know which MSDN SDK/DDK release is the latest to be compatible with both Visual Studio 97 and Windows 9*/ME.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: I found the SDK Darran Rowe mentioned here:

https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Development_Platform_Disc_6_October_1999_X05-05207_1999


Solution

  • Thank you all for your comments!

    Thankfully to Igor Tandetnik, I finally know which SDK is the latest Compatible with Windows 9*.

    I also started a post in the MSDN Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/7a9ca16c-e5e9-4e19-923b-ed8b4d7865b8/which-windows-sdk-is-comptaible-with-vs-97?forum=visualstudiogeneral

    Thanks to one user there named Darran Rowe, We know the following:"the last version to be compatible with Visual C++ 5 is the Microsoft Platform SDK September 1999".

    So with that said, we established that the latest SDK which is fully compatible with both Visual Studio 97 and Windows 9* is the Microsoft PSDK September 1999 edition, released in October, 1999 and some SDKs released later may be compatible with Windows 9*, but apparently not with VS 97.

    Found it:

    https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Development_Platform_Disc_6_October_1999_X05-05207_1999

    However, I still have to find out if it will build.

    If someone knows another reason why building doesn't work?

    Please leave an answer below, and I guarantee I'll (temporarily) vote the first answer, for motivation.

    Thank you all for your support and I hope this helped all of you!

    Sincerely,

    Kevin Crans