On 06/03/2019 20:28, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Seth, > > On 3/6/2019 2:16 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: >> Am 2019-03-06 12:17, schrieb Tomasz Wlostowski: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This patchset enables building KiCad in MS Visual Studio (version 2017, >>> not tested on earlier versions). >> >> Thank you Tom! I would love it if, after testing, we could consider >> switching our official MSW builds to MSVC. While the mingw project does >> good work, it is substantially slower and doesn't fully implement C++11, >> particularly the std::async library but not just. It also doesn't (as >> far as I have found) document which parts don't properly work. So we >> discover them as we go along. >> >> A note on patch 0009: the auto-generated libcontext seems to be >> substituting windows line termination, so every line is modified. >> >> -Seth > > I think this is probably a good idea but please keep in mind that this > would require some major changes to our windows packaging script and a > lot of testing before we could make it the default for windows builds. > Hi Wayne,
There's a long way to go for official MSVC builds, but having it supported already means a lot of help for Windows developers. Also I encourage to test the binaries produced with MSVC as it may unearth more bugs/assertions that we missed on MSYS/GCC because of different memory layout. Tom > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
