Hi All,
Building Serf 1.3.10 on Windows with MSVC 14.5 using SCons build system
currently fails because the "MSVC version is not recognised". Also the
error is only generated when making a Debug build.
The error message looks like this:
[[[
scons: *** Invalid value for enum variable 'MSVC_VERSION': '14.5'. Valid
values are: ('14.3', '14.2', '14.1', '14.0', '12.0', '11.0', '10.0', '9.0',
'8.0', '6.0')
]]]
After some investigation, I found that there is an explicit list of what
versions are supported [1]. However, I didn't find any references to the
variable it sets (MSVC_VERSION).
I'm not an expert in scons. Perhaps someone else could point out how this
actually works, but from my perspective I don't see a reason for this
parameter to exist in the first place. If it's a scons thing, that it
requires that variable to be pre-configured, at least I don't
think we should explicitly limit compiler versions to a specific collection
of values. I think a minor change update of the compiler should not be
causing a well-functioning build configuration to suddenly start failing.
[1]
https://github.com/apache/serf/blob/7e98c4d9248b90b7459d14bc5db7f3b85125b134/SConstruct#L206
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Timofei Zhakov
