Re: Updates to developers guide for Windows

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 16 July 2014 06:36, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com> wrote:

> 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.
I hadn't even considered that, another nail in the coffin for the old stuff.

-- 
Graham Bloice
Software Developer
Trihedral UK Limited

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