Yes, but that makes it non-standard C++ which makes it difficult for everyone else on the planet. It's also a far more dangerous conversion than the string literal to const char * that we get bombarded with warnings about.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:21 AM, McLeod, John <[email protected]> wrote: > If you look at the Microsoft implementation of string, it has an explicit > conversion to char * allowed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Eric J Korpela > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:19 AM > To: Jord van der Elst > Cc: Rom Walton; BOINC Dev Mailing List > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] WINBUILD: Minimum supported VS is now VS 2010 > > Nothing quite like spending a few hundred dollars to compile free software, > is there? It's not clear from Rom's message whether the incompatibility is > in the project files (or that it's too much work to maintain the old > project files), or whether its a newer visual C++ version that is > necessary. If it's just the maintenence of old project files and required > libraries, a volunteer could do it. > > As a means of relaxing, I've been slowly working on cross compiling with > mingw32/64 on Linux and Cygwin, but, of course, there's no clear > indications of what features are necessary in wxWidgets to compile > boincmgr. At least I have the libraries and client compiling. Of course, > MSVC++ happily and silently compiles things that aren't legal on gcc (like > implicit conversions from string to char *, what's that about?), so there > are a hunderd things to fix to get it working. > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Jord van der Elst <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > WINBUILD: Minimum supported VS is now VS 2010 > > > > So then that means that someone has to retest and rewrite all and > > everything of > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CompileClient#Windows as the > > compilers the page is written for are VS 2005 (Express) and 2008. > > > > And what VS, full VS or is Express also an option? > > Or is Express still not capable of compiling 64bit applications? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Jord van der Elst. > > _______________________________________________ > > boinc_dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
