Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 06/04/16 22:50, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Things to note so far:
>>>
>>>   * 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.
>>
>> It's fun to set it up yes. I do have the machine with buildfarm client ready
>> still (although now also traveling so slightly complicated to get to it) but
>> I didn't activate it yet as I don't want it to just report failures forever.
>
> Petr, did you actually try the patches I sent? I did my tests using
> the community version of Visual Studio 2015 and a full install of it.
> If I am the only able to make those working, well we surely have a
> problem captain.

By the way, if I look at the vcxproj files generated in my case, those
are correctly with Tools=14.0 or PlatformToolSet=v140.. Perhaps not
using Win10 differs in the way things are generated.
-- 
Michael