Re: MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

[Anders Broman <a.broman () bredband net>]

Graham Bloice skrev den 2015-08-12 19:18:
> On 12 August 2015 at 17:57, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com 
> <mailto:pascal.quantin () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Le 12 août 2015 6:21 PM, "Bill Meier" <wmeier () newsguy com
>     <mailto:wmeier () newsguy com>> a écrit :
>     >
>     > [Resend]
>     >
>     > I see that several people (Anders, ...) been building with
>     MSVC-2015 (VC14) and have fixed a number of issues.
>     >
>     > So: I decided to download VC14 and give it a try (using NMake).
>     >
>     > A few questions:
>     >
>     > Are you using CMake or NMake ?

I used nmake

>     >
>     > If using NMake, I assume that you've updated config.nmake & etc.
>     Is there some reason you've not committed the changes ?

Graham asked me to hold off until all issues was fixed ad as LUA, GeoIP 
and Qt was excluded I was in no hurry.
>     >
>     > If not, I've made what I think are the required changes for
>     NMake. Do you think it's Ok to commit them ?
I have no objections, it'll be easier to make sure it continues to work 
if the changes are committed.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Have you been able to do a complete build ?

Yes
>     >
>     > So far:
>     >
>     > 1. Compiling packet-pdc.c gets:
>     >
>     > [...]\packet-pdc.c(205) : fatal error C1001: An internal error
>     has occurred in the compiler.
>     > (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 246)
>     >  To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the
>     program near the locations listed above.
>     > Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>     >  Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more
>     information
>     >
>     > INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
>     Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe'
>     >     Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>     >     Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more
>     information
>     >
>     > I've figured out what to change to fix this.
>     > (I've also extracted a much smaller test file which causes the
>     error and will submit the file to Microsoft).
>     >

I didn't encounter that problem...

>     >
>     >
>     > 2. I had to disable building with geoip because:
>     >
>     > C:\Program Files\Windows
>     Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1925): warning C4005:
>     'snprintf': macro redefinition (compiling source file packet-
>     > ip.c)
>     > [...]\GeoIP-1.5.1-2-win32ws\include\GeoIP.h(36): note: see
>     previous definition of 'snprintf' (compili
>     > ng source file packet-ip.c)
>     > C:\Program Files\Windows
>     Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1927): fatal error
>     C1189: #error:  Macro definition of snprintf conflicts with Stan
>     > dard Library function declaration (compiling source file
>     packet-ip.c)

Yes me too and that's also a comment about it in my commit, same for the 
next point..
>     >
>     >
>     > 3. I disabled building with LUA because there's apparently yet
>     no LUA library (dll) for use with VC14.
>
>     I might have a look at it when coming back from vacation if the
>     packager I used last time did not update the library (I have no
>     reliable Internet access right now, yes this is still possible
>     nowadays :)). But I was not in a hurry as there is no Qt package
>     compiled with MSVC2015 yet, so we still have a strong dependency
>     on MSVC2013.
>
>     Pascal.
>
> FYI Windows CMake doesn't currently seem to configure without Qt, I'm 
> not too fussed about that as on Windows the Qt version is the main build.
>
> The QT folks had previously indicated VS2015 support would be released 
> as a 5.5.x release so it's likely not too far off: 
> https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/04/29/windows-10-support-in-qt/
>
> Enjoying your vacation in the mountains Pascal?
>
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
>
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