Re: feature/vs2012: testing needed

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> wrote:
> > On another note, it occurred to me that it might be possible to
> > simplify the windows build by using the mingw windows header files.
>
>
> With MSVC? Not a good idea. One main difference between an MSVC build and a
> MinGW build is that in a MinGW build some parts of the code (don't exactly
> remember what) is not compiled, exactly because the required headers are not
> present in MinGW (mingw-w64, actually, and don't let the "64" confuse you,
> that is just part of the project name, does not indicate bitness in the LO
> case).

Probably the ATL headers. But weren't you trying to remove our
dependency on those?


> > That would eliminate at least one complicated step
>
>
> Surely installing the Windows SDK is not complicated.

More complicated than you might expect, since not always versions of
the Windows SDK seem to have all of the bits we need.
I generated quite a lot of traffic on the LO list back in Dec/Jan
getting all of the relevant bits set up.