I'd encourage you to try the mingw-w64 route. If you use mingw-w64 and GCC, you won't have to worry about the licensing restrictions Microsoft puts on Visual Studio, which have changed over the years. The mingw-w64 project provides a lot of the headers and functions that Visual Studio has, and they always accept patches to add missing headers or functions on this mailing list. In fact, I've been able to compile two different pieces of pretty involved Microsoft sample code using mingw-w64 (usbview and devcon).
--David On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Brad Garton <[email protected]> wrote: > Aha -- this was what I feared would be the case. I'll start porting all > the code into VS and tracking down all the missing headers and functions, > oh joy. > > Thanks for the help, everyone! > > brad > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Mateusz Mikuła <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > However, once I try to use some more c++ features, I get the >> > following >> > error, and it seems to be associated with the compiled object files >> > themselves: >> > >> > "invalid or corrupt file: no symbol for COMDAT section ..." (and a >> > hex >> > address). >> >> It's not possible to mix static libstdc++ with Microsoft C++ runtime. >> In fact even mingw-w64 based Clang doesn't play nicely with static >> libstdc++ http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-April/053530.htm >> l >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Mingw-w64-public mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
