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Alexander Broekhuis commented on CELIX-42:
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I am not in favor of using -ansi, since MSVC actually supports a bit more then
only C89. Altogether having to use MSVC for C development feels like being
thrown back years when comparing with GCC etc. But there isn't a big chance of
MS updating C support in VS...
So while I think some extra switches might help, I would like to make some
tests to see which ones are usable and don't turn of to much. The current
codebase probably will compile with a few chances, so we could use that as a
starting point. If it compiles on GCC and MSVC we could try with the additional
switches. If it then fails with those switches, I don't think we should use
them...
Again, I find it somehow ridiculous that MSVC doesn't support any higher
version of C :(. But
http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/ gives a good
read (also read the comments :)), and might give us some pointers on a way to
go (eg use the c++ compiler, as advised in that post.
What I find important is that we have a solution which is also viable for the
longer term, and not only a short term fix.
> Support Visual Studio
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> Key: CELIX-42
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CELIX-42
> Project: Celix
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Alexander Broekhuis
> Assignee: Alexander Broekhuis
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> To be able to use Celix on Windows several code changes are needed:
> * APR usage
> * Follow C90 style instead of C99
> * Fix CMake scripts
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