Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On 04/06/2016 04:50 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 03/29/2016 09:38 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
>> wrote:
>>> I am currently travelling, but my intention is to deal with the
>>> remaining
>>> patches when I'm back home this weekend, unless someone beats me to it.
>> Cool.
>>
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> Progress report:
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> I have spent way too much time on this and don't have it working yet.
> I'm setting up a sacrificial VM from scratch in a last ditch attempt
> to get it working.
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> Things to note so far:
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>  * VS2015 appears to create version 12 solution files, not version 14,
>    and the tools complained about version 14.
>  * Windows git (the successor to msysGit) apparently no longer ships
>    with bison and flex. So if you need those (i.e. to built from git,
>    not tarball) you're probably going to need to install the MsysDTK
>    even if you're not using its compiler.
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>



Not out of the woods yet. Attached is what I got from VS2015 on a fresh
W10 VM, with Michael's patch 0002 and 0004 applied.


cheers

andrew