[Geany-Devel] geany-plugins fail to build with msvc

[Lex Trotman]

On 19 April 2013 03:59, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 18/04/13 19:36, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:21:25 +0200
> > Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Btw, does Geany build with MSVC?
> >
> > No. The '-mms-bitfields' warnings aside, it fails with:
> >
> > ..\plugins\saveactions.c(30) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
> > file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory
> >
> > So, we have Geany as geany-pplugins with do not compile with msvc, and
> > the msvcrt.dll problem pointed by Lex. Disabling the msvc detection
> > seems even more reasonable to me, for example:
> >
> >     from waflib.Tools.compiler_c import c_compiler
> >     c_compiler['win32'] = ['gcc']
> >
> > just before opt.tool_options('compiler_cc') in both wscript files.
>
> I agree.
> I also vote for disabling msvc detection paired with a comment that it
> can be enabled again once someone steps up with a working patch for MSVC
> support and a good reasoning why it should be supported :).
>

Sounds like a plan :)

Cheers
Lex


>
>
> Thanks for your efforts.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
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