Re: Updates to developers guide for Windows

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 15 July 2014 23:18, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm going to add some info to the developers guide for building with
> VS2013, I'll probably add VS2012 although MS seems to regard that as dead
> as the EE version isn't available any more.
> > Any objections if I remove all the stuff about ancient compilers pre
> VS2010?
>
> Can those older compilers compile the current Wireshark source?

They might be able to, who knows.  With the free availability of VS2010EE
and VS2013EE why would anyone want to use the old and buggy compilers.
Basically I'm calling it a support issue, and it's stuff I think we don't
need to support.


> And will they run on XP or later, and can they build for XP or later?

I know VS2005 Pro runs on Win 8.1, but I would only use it for a legacy
product.  All the compilers can build for later OS's, it usually depends on
the later versions of the Platform SDK's also being installed (which often
bring in new compilers), hence my dislike of detecting the compiler version
in the source, when it's really about the SDK in use.

I haven't tried running VS2013 on XP, it does have some .Net framework
dependencies that might prevent it running.


> If not, we should *definitely* nuke them, as I don't think we currently
> support building for anything prior to XP, and I'm not sure we even support
> building *on* XP any more.
As I say, it's all legacy stuff, the only cost to move up is the OS, so I
can't think of a good reason why we need to keep all the legacy clutter.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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