On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Robert Story <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:25:40 +0200 Bart wrote:
> BVA> There are several issues with the MSVC interactive and batch builds in
> BVA> 5.6pre1 and 5.6pre2:
> BVA> - "make clean" fails because a command invoked in this step had become
> too
> BVA> large.
> BVA> - The libhelpers source files had not yet been moved into libagent.
>
> At this stage of the release process, only things that break the build are
> supposed to be considered. The clean target doesn't qualify, and I don't
> think
> moving source files around does either.
>
Once "make clean" fails, the build stops. So this is also a build breakage
issue.
And it is not possible to get the build working without moving source files
around.
BVA> - Some functions that are declared in more than one header file had
> BVA> inconsistent DLL import declarations which made building the DLLs
> fail.
> BVA> - Some functions necessary for building the Perl modules were not
> exported
> BVA> which made building the Perl modules fail.
>
> +1
>
> These seem more reasonable, that I don't know why they weren't detected
> much
> earlier in the release process.
>
Personally I didn't have the time before to run MSVC tests. And this also
means that until now nobody had tried to build one of the 5.6 prereleases or
release candidates with MSVC.
Bart.
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