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

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Kinzler [mailto:hfp@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 April 2019 14:37
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>; win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] Request to add back support for VS2012
> 
> 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).
> 

I don't think the WDK supports use of any compiler other than MSVC unless 
Microsoft have enabled this very recently.

  Paul

> 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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