Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On 06/04/16 22:50, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 03/29/2016 09:38 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
>> wrote:
>>> I am currently travelling, but my intention is to deal with the
>>> remaining
>>> patches when I'm back home this weekend, unless someone beats me to it.
>> Cool.
>>
>
> Progress report:
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>
> I have spent way too much time on this and don't have it working yet.
> I'm setting up a sacrificial VM from scratch in a last ditch attempt to
> get it working.
>
> Things to note so far:
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> * VS2015 appears to create version 12 solution files, not version 14,
> and the tools complained about version 14.
> * Windows git (the successor to msysGit) apparently no longer ships
> with bison and flex. So if you need those (i.e. to built from git,
> not tarball) you're probably going to need to install the MsysDTK
> even if you're not using its compiler.
>

It's fun to set it up yes. I do have the machine with buildfarm client
ready still (although now also traveling so slightly complicated to get
to it) but I didn't activate it yet as I don't want it to just report
failures forever.

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