When installing the HDK, i got a message that Visual Studio 2003 was required for the build. Can I also build a plugin with the 2005sp1 version? What are the things that I need to take into consideration to acheive this?

Hi SpOOkyPaul,

Unfortunately, you really do have to use VS2003, because the existing Houdini libaries would not be compatible with your plugin if you used VS2005. You can compile your plugin with VS2005 and run it, but if you try to use any functions in the existing Houdini libraries (which you have to do if you want to get anything done), it will lock.

I'm not sure if SideFX has any plans on upgrading to VS2005 soon, but if/when they do, I'm sure they'll announce it in the changelogs.

–Joel

Sorry, currently only Houdini 9 on Win64 supports using VS2005 with the HDK. (well, because only H9 on Win64 is compiled with it. )

I understand. So, I gues, no MSVC2005 on xp32