worldforge/wfmath — comment on commit 3fd244c809f2b818fa1cceaeda9e079adcc03571
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By sajty:

Firebreath uses STL, which is not supported by mingw.
However the ember part is compiling on mingw too.
M$ plans to implement full C++0x support within 8 years. :)

Visual Studio Express is a stripped down, but free version. Don't expect lot of features in it. :)
For example in ultimate you have edit&continue build, where you can edit the code and compile the module, without restarting the program.
Also intellitrace debugger, which can save state of the program and later step back in time to a previous state to rerun a given code.
Also there are lot of useful plugins to it(plugins are not allowed in express edition), like visual leak detector, visual assist x, AMD CodeAnalyst, Nvidia Parallel Nsight shader debugger, lua debugger and lot more.

So visual studio has lot of features, but not the express edition.
For students in the MSDNAA, MS products like visual studio ultimate are for free.