ALL: Remove support for MSVC8 and older

MSVC8 gives various compile error relating to templates that were changed
back in 2008, leading me to belive that no one is using it, and that there
is not point adding work arounds for a 9 year old compiler no one uses.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 111 deletions

diff --git a/dists/msvc8/create_msvc8.bat b/dists/msvc8/create_msvc8.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e0d339001..0000000000
--- a/dists/msvc8/create_msvc8.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-@echo off
-
-echo.
-echo Automatic creation of the MSVC9 project files
-echo.
-
-if "%~1"=="/stable" goto stable
-if "%~1"=="/STABLE" goto stable
-if "%~1"=="/all"    goto all
-if "%~1"=="/ALL"    goto all
-if "%~1"=="/tools"  goto tools
-if "%~1"=="/TOOLS"  goto tools
-if "%~1"=="/tests"  goto tests
-if "%~1"=="/TESTS"  goto tests
-if "%~1"=="/clean"  goto clean_check
-if "%~1"=="/CLEAN"  goto clean_check
-if "%~1"=="/help"   goto command_help
-if "%~1"=="/HELP"   goto command_help
-if "%~1"=="/?"      goto command_help
-
-if "%~1"==""        goto check_tool
-
-echo Invalid command parameter: %~1
-echo.
-
-:command_help
-echo Valid command parameters are:
-echo   stable   Generated stable engines project files
-echo   all      Generate all engines project files
-echo   tools    Generate project files for the devtools
-echo   clean    Clean generated project files
-echo   help     Show help message
-goto done
-
-:check_tool
-if not exist create_project.exe goto no_tool
-
-:question
-echo.
-set batchanswer=S
-set /p batchanswer="Enable stable engines only, or all engines? (S/a)"
-if "%batchanswer%"=="s" goto stable
-if "%batchanswer%"=="S" goto stable
-if "%batchanswer%"=="a" goto all
-if "%batchanswer%"=="A" goto all
-goto question
-
-:no_tool
-echo create_project.exe not found in the current folder.
-echo You need to build it first and copy it in this
-echo folder
-goto done
-
-:all
-echo.
-echo Creating project files with all engines enabled (stable and unstable)
-echo.
-create_project ..\.. --enable-all-engines --msvc --msvc-version 8
-goto done
-
-:stable
-echo.
-echo Creating normal project files, with only the stable engines enabled
-echo.
-create_project ..\.. --msvc --msvc-version 8
-goto done
-
-:tools
-echo.
-echo Creating tools project files
-echo.
-create_project ..\.. --tools --msvc --msvc-version 8
-goto done
-
-:tests
-echo.
-echo Creating tests project files
-echo.
-create_project ..\.. --tests --msvc --msvc-version 8
-goto done
-
-:clean_check
-echo.
-set cleananswer=N
-set /p cleananswer="This will remove all project files. Are you sure you want to continue? (N/y)"
-if "%cleananswer%"=="n" goto done
-if "%cleananswer%"=="N" goto done
-if "%cleananswer%"=="y" goto clean
-if "%cleananswer%"=="Y" goto clean
-goto clean_check
-
-:clean
-echo.
-echo Removing all project files
-del /Q *.vcproj* > NUL 2>&1
-del /Q *.vsprops > NUL 2>&1
-del /Q *.sln* > NUL 2>&1
-del /Q scummvm* > NUL 2>&1
-del /Q devtools* > NUL 2>&1
-del /Q test_runner.cpp
-goto done
-
-:done
-echo.
-pause
diff --git a/dists/msvc8/readme.txt b/dists/msvc8/readme.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 95b55e973a..0000000000
--- a/dists/msvc8/readme.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The Visual Studio project files can now be created automatically from the GCC
-files using the create_project tool inside the /devtools/create_project folder.
-
-To create the default project files, build create_project.exe, copy it inside
-this folder and run the create_msvc8.bat file for a default build. You can run
-create_project.exe with no parameters to check the possible command-line options