*groan* today is time for the drop test—dropping things on MSVCs foot and hoping I don't feel like drop kicking it ^_^.

My life would probably be a lot easier if I just rigged a cross compiler and gave up on using a platforms more 'native' compilers, i.e. Visual C++ on Windows. It's about as much a native compiler as the platform has, and I still consider it insulting that a C compiler isn't provided as part of a Windows install lol.