Re: Dropping support for Visual Studio 2008 in master branch

Hello all

Le Fri, 31 May 2013 23:30:34 +0200, Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> a  
écrit:

> On 29/05/13 16:28, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > Hi Tor,
> >
> > Tor Lillqvist schrieb:
> > > Unless somebody can give a *really* good reason, I plan to explicitly
> > > drop support for building the master branch with MSVS 2008 soon.
> > >
> > > It might be that this support was already unintentionally broken  
> > > earlier
> > > today or yesterday, and it would be easiest to just follow up and do it
> > > completely.
> > >
> > > Note that already the TDF 4.0 build has been built with MSVS 2010.
> >
> > Is a build possible with the Express version, on Windows 7, so that it
> > includes ATL?
>
> most likely nobody here has tried if the trick with the DDK works with
> MSVC 2010 or 2012 as well - other replies indicate not many are aware
> that it was even possible.  but chances are good since presumably it's
> just some headers and .lib files that just need to be put on compiler's
> search path.
I tried on VS2010 and it worked. just had another issue related to msvcrt  
merge module which does not come with it but seems mandatory to LO for the  
msi.

Regards
--
Mat M