Re: MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

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

Hi all,

2015-08-12 18:57 GMT+02:00 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>:

> Hi,
> Le 12 août 2015 6:21 PM, "Bill Meier" <wmeier () newsguy com> a écrit :
> > [Resend]
> >
> > I see that several people (Anders, ...) been building with MSVC-2015
> (VC14) and have fixed a number of issues.
> > So: I decided to download VC14 and give it a try (using NMake).
> >
> > A few questions:
> >
> > Are you using CMake or NMake ?
> >
> > If using NMake, I assume that you've updated config.nmake & etc. Is
> there some reason you've not committed the changes ?
> > If not, I've made what I think are the required changes for NMake. Do
> you think it's Ok to commit them ?
> > Have you been able to do a complete build ?
> >
> > So far:
> >
> > 1. Compiling packet-pdc.c gets:
> >
> > [...]\packet-pdc.c(205) : fatal error C1001: An internal error has
> occurred in the compiler.
> > (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 246)
> >  To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program
> near the locations listed above.
> > Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
> >  Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
> >
> > INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 14.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe'
> >     Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
> >     Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more
> information
> > I've figured out what to change to fix this.
> > (I've also extracted a much smaller test file which causes the error and
> will submit the file to Microsoft).
> > 2. I had to disable building with geoip because:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\Windows
> Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1925): warning C4005: 'snprintf':
> macro redefinition (compiling source file packet-
> > ip.c)
> > [...]\GeoIP-1.5.1-2-win32ws\include\GeoIP.h(36): note: see previous
> definition of 'snprintf' (compili
> > ng source file packet-ip.c)
> > C:\Program Files\Windows
> Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1927): fatal error C1189:
> #error:  Macro definition of snprintf conflicts with Stan
> > dard Library function declaration (compiling source file packet-ip.c)
> >
> >
> > 3. I disabled building with LUA because there's apparently yet no LUA
> library (dll) for use with VC14.
>
> I might have a look at it when coming back from vacation if the packager I
> used last time did not update the library (I have no reliable Internet
> access right now, yes this is still possible nowadays :)). But I was not in
> a hurry as there is no Qt package compiled with MSVC2015 yet, so we still
> have a strong dependency on MSVC2013.

I have now uploaded Lua libraries compiled with MSVC2015. Could one of you
having this compiler give a try to
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/10313/ ?

Thanks,
Pascal.

> libraries compiled with MSVC =>
> > After addressing #1, #2 & #3 above (as well as an issue in
> packet-lwres.c), I got a complete working build (based upon a quick test).
> > 4. When compiling with code-analysis enabled, I'm getting a boatload of
> the following warning message:
> > c:\program files\windows kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0
> > \ucrt\string.h(130) : warning C28252: Inconsistent annotation for
> > 'strcpy': _Param_(1) has 'SAL_w
> > ritableTo(elementCount(_String_length_(__formal(1,parameter1))+1))' on
> > the prior instance. See <no file>(0).
> >
> >
> > This makes using "analysis" with vc14 kind of difficult.
> >
> >
> > Bill
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