Re: PSA: Avoid Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0

2018-08-06 Thread Jeff Gilbert
Consider instead building with clang-cl: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Building_Firefox_on_Windows_with_clang-cl If you build with clang-cl, you can keep the newest (gecko-incompatible) version of MSVC installed, which is particularly useful

Re: PSA: Avoid Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0

2018-05-11 Thread Matthew N.
On 2018-05-08 6:40 a.m., Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0. Unfortunately, it is currently not usable for building Firefox due to bug 1458247 (internal compiler errors in WebRTC code). The bug was already reported and confirmed upstream during the

Re: PSA: Avoid Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0

2018-05-08 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
Make sure you also disable the autoupdate in the task scheduler! "VSIX Auto Update 14 under Microsoft VisualStudio". FRG Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0. Unfortunately, it is currently not usable for building Firefox due to bug 1458247

PSA: Avoid Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0

2018-05-08 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0. Unfortunately, it is currently not usable for building Firefox due to bug 1458247 (internal compiler errors in WebRTC code). The bug was already reported and confirmed upstream during the 15.7 preview cycle, but unfortunately the final