Essential SDK for VC6

Question

Does anyone know where I can download the latest Platform SDK to work with VC6? The links I can find in Googling seem dead.

Answer 1

I managed to find it here ... (official or not)

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/FebruaryPlatformSDK

Answer 2

If you have a subscription to MSDN, the Platform SDK (February 2003) and others are available in the Tools & Resources → SDK and DDK Platform section

Answer 3

The latest SDK for the Windows platform, fully supporting VC6, was the Windows 2003 SDK, February 2003. However, through legitimate channels you can no longer find this SDK for download, and it looks like it doesn’t even have it for ordering, since links to order sites are also dead.

See this old MSDN blog post about PSDK unavailable on the Internet, and the order link is dead: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowssdk/archive/2006/06/20/640172.aspx p>

However, not all hope is lost. From this later post on the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowssdk/thread/d63fb448-c417-4f8e-9260-5a8082daa2af

As Karin Mayer says, you can get a copy of the PSDK from February 2003 from this site:

http://mssdk.orderport.net/22221848/showall.asp

The drive itself does not cost anything, but you may have to pay shipping.

And of course, if it is absolutely necessary to use VC6, I would recommend switching to the current and supported version of the VC ++ compiler.

Answer 4

On the official Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK Web Install page, quote:

This SDK does not support working with Microsoft Visual C/C++®, 6.0 as support for VC 6.0 has ended. The last SDK that will work with VC 6.0 is the February 2003 Edition, you can order a CD on the fulfillment site. Side by side installations are not supported. 

Links for downloading the Platform SDK February 2003 Edition in case you are not subscribed to MSDN:

 http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.1.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.2.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.3.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.4.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.5.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.6.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.7.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.8.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.9.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.10.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.11.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.12.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.13.cab http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.bat http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/Extract.exe 

Shelf life after unpacking.

If these links disappear once, try http://archive.org/web/ or contact members at https://winworldpc.com/ or similar fault tolerance information.

For example, all .cab are available at https://web.archive.org/web/20100318065128/http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm .