Re: report from the bleeding edge (VS 2017)

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

The question from me would be, would this also mean dropping support for
older Windows versions?

It will definitely cut off WinXP, but could also cut off a Win7-32bit
version? Not sure if such a version exists, but those are also applicable
to their Windows Server counter-part.

I am all for dropping support on older versions, but some users might never
be able to switch, as they are fixed to their Windows version. (ISS for a
more fun and exotic example, ;-) )

Just something to discuss I guess.



On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com
> wrote:

> On 14 February 2018 at 06:24, Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Den 14 feb. 2018 6:58 fm skrev "Pascal Quantin" <pascal.quantin () gmail com
> > > :
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 14 févr. 2018 02:24, "Gerald Combs" <gerald () wireshark org> a écrit :
> >
> > On 2/13/18 8:26 AM, Anders Broman wrote:
> > > For what it's worth I have been building and distributing for VS 2017
> > for almost a year on Win7
> > > Cygwin and python set up as per developers guide from way back.
> > > I have the following batch script I run in my cmd window
> > > **********************************************************************
> > > ** Visual Studio 2017 Developer Command Prompt v15.5.6
> > > ** Copyright (c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation
> > > **********************************************************************
> > > [vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
> > >
> > > set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> > > set WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=C:\Development
> > > set QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.9.4\msvc2017_64
> > > set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
> > > set PATH=path=%PATH%;C:\cygwin64\bin;C:\Program
> > Files\CMake\bin;C:\Python27
> > > Then
> > > cmake -DENABLE_CHM_GUIDES=on -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" ..\wireshark
> > > and
> > > msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo Wireshark.sln 2>&1 > log.txt
> >
> > Is there any reason we shouldn't switch to VS 2017 before the 2.6 release?
> > It's installed on the main and PD Windows builders.
> >
> >
> > The availability of a 32bits Qt package for MSVC2017? I would find it a
> > bit weird to use MSVC2015 for the x86 binary and MSVC2017 for the x64 one.
> >
> >
> > Do we still need to build for 32 bits?
> Personally I'd be happy to drop the 32 bit version, what the rest of the
> world would make of it, I'm not so sure.
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
wrote:

> 2018-02-14 11:24 GMT+01:00 Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>:
>
> > On 14 February 2018 at 06:24, Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Den 14 feb. 2018 6:58 fm skrev "Pascal Quantin" <
> > > pascal.quantin () gmail com>:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 14 févr. 2018 02:24, "Gerald Combs" <gerald () wireshark org> a écrit :
> > >
> > > On 2/13/18 8:26 AM, Anders Broman wrote:
> > > > For what it's worth I have been building and distributing for VS 2017
> > > for almost a year on Win7
> > > > Cygwin and python set up as per developers guide from way back.
> > > > I have the following batch script I run in my cmd window
> > > > **********************************************************************
> > > > ** Visual Studio 2017 Developer Command Prompt v15.5.6
> > > > ** Copyright (c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation
> > > > **********************************************************************
> > > > [vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
> > > >
> > > > set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> > > > set WIRESHARK_BASE_DIR=C:\Development
> > > > set QT5_BASE_DIR=C:\Qt\5.9.4\msvc2017_64
> > > > set WIRESHARK_TARGET_PLATFORM=win64
> > > > set PATH=path=%PATH%;C:\cygwin64\bin;C:\Program
> > > Files\CMake\bin;C:\Python27
> > > > Then
> > > > cmake -DENABLE_CHM_GUIDES=on -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" ..\wireshark
> > > > and
> > > > msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo Wireshark.sln 2>&1 >
> > > log.txt
> > >
> > > Is there any reason we shouldn't switch to VS 2017 before the 2.6
> > > release?
> > > It's installed on the main and PD Windows builders.
> > >
> > >
> > > The availability of a 32bits Qt package for MSVC2017? I would find it a
> > > bit weird to use MSVC2015 for the x86 binary and MSVC2017 for the x64 one.
> > >
> > >
> > > Do we still need to build for 32 bits?
> > Personally I'd be happy to drop the 32 bit version, what the rest of the
> > world would make of it, I'm not so sure.
>
> I guess a good indicator would be how often the x86 variant is downloaded.
> Gerald, do you have this number?
>
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