Which version of ml.exe?

[AeroASM]

As far as I know, there are 3 main versions of ml.exe: 6.14, 6.15 and 7.00

What are the differences between these versions? And which ones do you have to buy, and which ones are free?

[roticv]

If I am not wrong 6.14 have some problems supporting SSE2.

[Mark Jones]

I've heard Hutch say that ML 7.00 comes with the Windows XP DDK, hope that helps.

[pbrennick]

You are both correct.  I got 7.0 in that manner and 6.14 is old to the point that it can't be expected to support sse2.  Having said that, 6.14 is a work horse and still has lots of life.  I do not believe that 6.15 is free.  I think you need to own a license for visual studio.  Hutch has worked it out so we can use 6.14 without any fear.

Paul

[OceanJeff32]

I use 7.00, I got it from when I bought Visual C++.NET Standard (Educational Version, used)

It came with the package in the BIN directory for VC

Later,

Jeff C
:dazzled:

[GregL]

I use ML.EXE version 6.15, but 6.14 does everything I need to do. I have a Pentium III so I haven't done any SSE2 stuff yet. I have version 7.10 from Visual C/C++ 2003 but I had problems when trying to use it. ML version 6.14 or 6.15 works great for me.

[Relvinian]

I uses ML 6.15 which came with my Visual Studio and also have ML 7.1 but haven't used it yet.  6.15 does everything I need to do so I haven't bothered to update my assembly compiling routines to use 7.1 yet.

Relvinian

PS - I have access to any version of ML.EXE which MS produces through there MSDN developer subscription so I can do testing (like 8.0) if needed. Just let me know and I'll try them out.

[Xor Stance]

Hutch said in past: that he will deal with MS to obtain the ver 7.00 or later(I guess). For SSE, but I think that will be until next year or so. Since the movement form 32 to 64 it takes time and to be sure will be until in 10 years.