[Bf-committers] Windows XP and the future of Blender

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi Jürgen,
that sounds good, thanks for your work on this.

Thomas

Am 19.05.2013 16:19, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> As soon as NVidia provides a Cuda 5.5 toolset I'll provide official binaries. For all windows platforms xp-8.  A build system transition from VC2008 to VC2012 can be done later, when everything is well tested and safe.
>
> /Jürgen
>
> Am 19.05.2013 um 15:03 schrieb Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>> no worries, there won't be any changes for the upcoming Blender 2.68, we
>> will stick with vc2008 for it.
>> I do not want to jump ahead, much more testing is needed.
>>
>> Jürgen, you are of course welcome to provide official vc2012 binaries
>> for Blender 2.68, so people get a chance to test it well.
>> For 2.69 or later we then can check if a switch is doable.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> Am 19.05.2013 14:46, schrieb Cezary Kopias:
>>> we need support for xp
>>> we need msvc for CUDA
>>>
>>> maybe a good option would be to have:
>>>
>>> mingw for xp users (faster?)
>>> mingw-w64 as experimental
>>> and msvc 2012 for win x64 (win7 win8)
>>>
>>> sound good?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/5/19 Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com>
>>>
>>>> MinGW 64 breaks OpenMP in win 8 too.
>>>> There is no problem supporting Windows XP with VS2012 anymore.
>>>> We'll just have to keep in mind using the right platform toolset.
>>>> An we have to keep in mind that some features won't work.
>>>>
>>>> So I would suggest we compile the 32bit blender binaries with vs 2012 and
>>>> the v110_xp toolset and just drop xp64 support by compiling blender with
>>>> default v110 toolset for x64 windows.
>>>>
>>>> So we don't have to maintain two windows build platforms, just one.
>>>> Makes it easier to stay up to date with libs.
>>>>
>>>> /Jürgen
>>
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>> Thomas Dinges
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>>
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