Re: Visual studio versions

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Graham Bloice
Sent: den 16 april 2014 16:52
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Visual studio versions

> A recent question on Ask Wireshark [1] brought up the issue of which version of Visual Studio we should be targeting 
> with releases.
>
> Part of the issue is all the 3rd party libs that may be linked with a specific version of the MSVC run-time DLL.
>
> It has been suggested that we move to VS2012, is there a QT for 2012?  Maybe even go to 2013.  I would like us to use 
> the most recent (as long as it's been out for 3 >months or so) version of VS for a new release, is this practical?
>
> Apart from dev's own VS environments there are the buildbots to consider.

I couldn’t install Visual studio 2013 on my work computer as it complained Explorer was too old, unfortunately I can’t 
upgrade Explorer so I’d vote for 2012 ☺
As at this point it’s only LUA(?) giving problems we could support at least two LUA versions, the dll’s are available.

Otherwise in principle I agree with Graham to use the latest version.

> I also read somewhere else that MS will supply VS licences for open source projects, do you know anything about that 
> Gerald?

[1] : http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/31771/new-build-1106-on-vs2012-missing-msvcr100dll

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Graham Bloice

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