Hi Pete,
To my knowledge, VS 2005 does not contain the static runtime libraries, although the Platform SDK does contain some static libraries, such as libcp.lib.
I didn't spot any Platform ones that get installed by default with VS 2005. I guess the platform SDK may have some, but there isn't nearly enough space on the laptop for the platform SDK.
1) Anyone know a version of gmp which will work with all VS versions?
There are precompiled .DLL versions of GMP for Windows and directions for compiling it as a DLL under cygwin and patch files for compiling under VC++.NET at: http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp/
Yes, those are the _only_ versions of GMP I've found. The compiled versions don't work under VS 2005. The version Yhc ships with is taken from there. I suspect recompiling would work, but GMP is very well known for randomly breaking compilers, so a solution that doesn't involve compiling it myself would be strongly preferable. Thanks Neil