[Bf-committers] VS 2013 + Blender = ???

[Cezary Kopias]

 From USER: As always speed tests must be performed for such a decision.
Are there any new VS features that are worth mention?

And as always i will promote mingw-w64 :]
just read that you can compile windows build under linux - nice

/kopias

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:08:30 +0200, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com>  
wrote:

> Logic error corrected inline ;)
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Out of curiosity I downloaded the VS 2013 Pro preview yesterday.
>> And while playing with it I had the idea to try blender compilation  
>> with it ;)
>> I needed to tweak the sources a bit because MSVC 12 seems to break se  
>> things as M$ implements more C++11 features. It took me 30 Minutes to  
>> put a patch together.
>> But all the libs I compiled with VC11 need to be recompiled :(
>> So I stopped this insanity ...
>>
>> But what I am curious about, what do you guys think?
>> Shall we adapt new versions if MSVC early (even if we don't use it for  
>> production) or not?
>> Pro: when we decide to switch to another version (let's assume MSVC  
>> 2016, just for an example) the workload of porting might
> Not be that huge.
>> Con: we have to recompile libs and port blender every year (in case MS  
>> keeps this release schedule)
>>
>> /Jürgen
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