I have an undergrad student, who will be working on some features in Avogadro 
v2. Has there been success at VS2015 compilation?

Thanks,
-Geoff

> I was only able to put in about two hours this week working on building 
> Avogadro 2. Since I am attending PennApps this weekend, I won't be able to 
> keep working until next week.
> 
> Using the "super-build" does not seem like it is going to work for VS2015 in 
> its current state. This is because some of the .tar files contain code that 
> attempts to define "snprintf" as a macro which will throw an error in VS2015 
> (libxml2 for example). I actually read of some changes they've made in the 
> past which removes this for VS2015, but for some reason there is still a 
> place where they do it (here at line 46 if you're curious). Their Github page 
> has PR requests which looks like have been ignored, so I was thinking about 
> sending it to their mailing list. 
> 
> Have their been successful builds for VS2015 that you know of? Next week I am 
> going to build each dependency separately one at a time in order to get it to 
> build correctly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ethan


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