<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Óscar Fuentes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ofv@wanadoo.es" target="_blank">ofv@wanadoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Dix Lorenz <<a href="mailto:lists@dix-lorenz.de">lists@dix-lorenz.de</a>> writes:<br>
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> I might be mistaken, but to compile for WinXP on VS 2012 you have to<br>
> switch the Platform Toolset and AFAICT that means it will essentially<br>
> be using the VS 2010 compiler and libraries.<br>
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</div>That was how VS 2012 worked at release time. On Update 1 they added<br>
support for building Windows XP applications with the VS 2012 compiler.<br>
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VS 2013 C++ compiler can build XP applications too.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So this complexity highlights to me one important thing: whatever group of MSVC tools are<br>selected as the baseline, it would be really helpful to have people knowledgeable<br>
about that contribute to the description of precisely which C++11 constructs are<br>allowed (and if there are any surprising cases which don't work), for those of us<br>who have no idea precisely what will get past an MSVC compiler and no means<br>
or desire to set up a Windows system just for testing. It's very frustrating when<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">development turns in to a "I checked on all my systems, checked in and get<br>complaints from people on very different systems whose build broke" experience.<br>
(Yeah, I know there's any irony there...) Getting a clearly delimited feature list<br>should help reduce that.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dave<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br>-- <br><div>cheers, dave tweed__________________________</div><div>high-performance computing and machine vision expert: <a href="mailto:david.tweed@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.tweed@gmail.com</a></div><div>"while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot</div>
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