Re: Updates to developers guide for Windows

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

Le 16/07/2014 00:18, Guy Harris a écrit :
> 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?
>
> And will they run on XP or later, and can they build for XP or later?
>
> 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.

For now master still builds/runs on Windows XP using MSVC2010. But this
is no more officially supported, so it will stop at some point. Moreover
2 of our third party packages (Lua and Qt) depends on MSVC2010 or later,
so it makes sense to drop earlier compilers I guess.

Pascal.
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