Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Oldest version of VS supported?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 July 2014 18:51, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le 24/07/2014 19:39, Joerg Mayer a écrit :

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 06:20:48PM +0100, Graham Bloice wrote:
>> On 24 July 2014 18:08, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> IIRC there was some discussion which versions of VS should still be
>>> supported,
>>> but I failed to find it in the archives. So, was there some consensus
>>> which is
>>> the oldest version we are going to support with master?
>>>
>>>
>> I brought up the issue of moving to VS2013 for master, and separately
>> dropping info from the (master) docs for earlier than VS2010.
>>
>> I didn't see any requests for support to build with earlier than 2010,
>> although Guy did wonder about the doc changes, but no real conclusion was
>> reached.
>>
>> Personally I would make 2013 the minimum supported for master.
> Hmm, OK. So we need an updated developer's guide setup section. I will try
> to update my Windows vom 2010 to 2013 and see how it goes - just have to
> find out how to snapshot the VM first ;->
> Could you update Makefile.nmake and config.nmake to rip out all the
> stuff that deals with older versions? That would make my life with the
> CMake work on Windows somewhat easier  ;-)
>
> Thanks
>    Jörg

Could not we keep at least VS2010 but change the default to VS2013 (if
everybody agree)? I find it a quite drastic change to drop all older
compilers suddenly... This is not something we have done in the past.

That was what I was meaning, we would leave support for VS2010, and fix up whatever is needed for 2012 & 2013.  2013 builds well for me.  The toolchain in 2013 is a big improvement over 2010.

I think we can make nmake autodetect the version and possibly CMake too, although that likes to make it's own mind up so needs a command line switch if you have multiple versions.

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Graham Bloice