Marc Thevenet wrote:
> Thanks for the Cream suggestion, but my point is fixing the official Vim
> release, not getting an alternative build.
>
> As Christian pointed out, not everyone knows where to find the
> "unofficial" binaries (although Cream is linked on the download page),
> and even then, such a problem in the official releases just makes vim
> look bad.
>
> My initial question remains: are the official Windows releases of Vim
> built using cl.exe v16, and if so is it possible to upgrade the
> compiler?
>
> Bonus question: does anyone know who is responsible for building the
> official releases? Maybe it'll be simpler if I get in touch with this
> person directly.
I build the MS-Windows binaries with the oldest compiler that supports
the newest OS version. Microsoft has a habit of dropping support for
older OSes in new compiler releases. This way the binary runs on most
OS versions.
If there is an optimizer bug it can usually be fixed by
# pragma optimize("", off)
around the problematic code. I haven't seen a patch for that yet.
Since others produce perfectly fine binaries for recent patch levels, it
doesn't make sense for me to build releases very often. I have plenty
of things to do... It might be that we need to update the download page
to make it more clear what the status of builds is.
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