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

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi Jürgen,

We used vc2008 now for like 5 years? or so, and this worked out quite 
good. Probably we should update more frequently, but I see no reason to 
rush things either.
It will still take some weeks or months to test vc2012 with Blender 
thoroughly, to use this as a vc2008 replacement for official builds.

So let's finish the vc2012 update first, use it for official builds and 
then worry about when and if we should update the next time. ;)

Thomas

Am 28.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann:
> Sure! Switch to MinGw, but please do some good testing ;)
> I am the last not to support this ;)
>
> Am 28.06.2013 um 20:13 schrieb Cezary Kopias <cezary.kopias at gmail.com>:
>
>>  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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