Hello all,

we are using the TZ database on an embedded device. As the system has no standard operating system (only a small proprietary MicroKernel) and is not very powerful, we cannot use the TZ data “as is” on the device. Instead of this, we create text files from the TZ data for the countries and the time range we need on our system. The application that is used to create these files, is written in C++ .NET (because our whole development and deployment processes are done on Windows-based machines).

Currently I’m using a Linux machine to compile/make the code from tzcode*.tar.gz and to create the binary tzfiles. These binary files are then parsed by the application mentioned above.

Is there any possibility to compile the tzcode under Windows (especially Visual Studio 2005/2008) so that we could create our text files automatically using only the tzcode*.tar.gz and tzdata*.tar.gz archives? I’d appreciate any help or hints.

Best regards,

Oliver

Oliver Gerber

Diplom-Informatiker

Software Engineer

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