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

[Lex Trotman]

On 25 April 2013 06:09, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 19/04/13 01:31, Lex Trotman wrote:
> > 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 :)
>
> "I love it when a plan comes together.", er, I mean committed as
> suggested to Geany and Geany-Plugins.
>
>
Just in time, Scintilla no longer supports MSVC++6
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/scintilla-interest/fMYWxvePF6s
so
anyone using msvc would "have to know exactly what they were doing" to use
it with GTK using mscv6.

Cheers
Lex


>
> Regards,
> Enrico
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