Re: Visual studio versions

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2014-04-16 17:03 GMT+02:00 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
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> > A recent question on Ask Wireshark [1] brought up the issue of which
> version of Visual Studio we should be targeting with releases.
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> > Part of the issue is all the 3rd party libs that may be linked with a
> specific version of the MSVC run-time DLL.
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> > 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?
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> >
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> > Apart from dev's own VS environments there are the buildbots to consider.
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> 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 J
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> As at this point it’s only LUA(?) giving problems we could support at
> least two LUA versions, the dll’s are available.
I will try to come up with something and upload the patch on Gerrit so that
someone with MSVC2012 (not me ;)) can give it a try.
But it will not solve the qtshark case, it will only work for the GTK based
version (unless we could swith to the MinGW version of Qt).


> Otherwise in principle I agree with Graham to use the latest version.
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> > I also read somewhere else that MS will supply VS licences for open
> source projects, do you know anything about that Gerald?
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> [1] :
> http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/31771/new-build-1106-on-vs2012-missing-msvcr100dll
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> Graham Bloice
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