Re: [win-pv-devel] Request to add back support for VS2012

[Andreas Kinzler <hfp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Paul,

perhaps you could switch to clang / gcc / MinGW. I assume they are very 
good compilers. I don't know if their use for driver development is 
possible - I am sure they can be used for basic compiling/linking, maybe 
not for the validation pipeline (SDV).
Regards Andreas

On 23.04.2019 11:57, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > VS 2015 added the new compiler optimizer in Update 3 so I would also
> > consider it buggy. VS2013 should be safe too but AFAIK VS2013 was never
> > as widely used as VS2012 - that is why I would recommend to stay with
> > VS2012.
> > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/compiler-improvements-in-vs-2015-update-3-rc/
> The problem with VS2012 is that there was no free SKU that could be used for 
> driver dev. VS2013 has also gone out of support (on 09/04/2019). Both vs2012 
> and vs2013 scripts are still there in staging-8.2 and I have no intention to 
> remove them from there, but I'd really rather not have them in master as 
> maintaining multiple sets of vcxproj files is annoying and dealing with both 
> 2015 and 2017 is bad enough.
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