This particular mail (by Gregory) contains (a) a link to another mail (of his) describing how to get the MSFT tools to work, and (b) a link to a JIRA issue containing the necessary patches to use NASM for assembly:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200606.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Some particulars may be slightly different from one machine to the next, but in general this works; we need to get this info in the wiki IMHO. -Matt --- Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't take my word here - we need opines from > others, especially the > people that work a lot on windows... > > geir > > > Xiao-Feng Li wrote: > > Ok, then I will get back to VC7 at the moment. :-) > Let's wait till > > its acceptance by the community. > > > > Actually I don't see them as new APIs; instead, I > view them as > > enforced good coding conventions that help to > achieve better security, > > e.g., always check the buffer size in debug mode. > (Personally I like > > the changes immediately when I met them. My only > question was why we > > didn't do that earlier. :-) > > > > Thanks, > > xiaofeng > > > > On 7/6/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> I think the key reason is that this is > non-standard stuff from > >> microsoft's for-fee toolchain, and people in OSS > try to avoid having a > >> dependency on that. > >> > >> I wouldn't mind supporting this at some point a) > once it becomes a > >> standard and b) has broad acceptance, but I'm > guessing that's going to > >> take years. > >> > >> People who have used the free version of MSFT > tools seem to just set the > >> flag as you note. > >> > >> geir > >> > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > xiaofeng > >> > > >> > [1] > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/SafeCandC/ > >> > [2] > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1146.pdf > >> > > >> > On 7/6/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Xiao-Feng Li wrote: > >> >> > It has lots of "secure enhancement" API > changes. What's the strategy > >> >> > for those APIs support in Harmony? > >> >> > >> >> Huh? What APIs in Visual Studio? > >> >> > >> >> geir > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
