[PATCH] [DOCS] How to Setup a Windows Builder

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Rick Foos <rfoos at codeaurora.org> wrote:

>  On 11/13/2013 06:01 PM, Sean Silva wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Robinson, Paul <
> Paul_Robinson at playstation.sony.com> wrote:
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>> Very much a side comment:
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>> > Also, AFAIK almost all LLVM MSVC users are running 12.
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>>  Speaking as one who isn't, I'm not so sure about that.
>> Our builders are using 2010 and while we're aware of the
>> movement to require 2012, we're not there yet.
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>  That comment was mostly in the spirit of "if you had to choose a single
> MSVC version to describe, 2012 is likely to be the better choice". It is a
> fact that there are still developers using 2010 and until the upcoming
> policy change to require 2012 I expect that to remain true.
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>> --paulr
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>>    That actually brings up a good point. We have build machines with
> multiple versions of MSVC.
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> You can check what is installed by the vs-comntools, and use that variable
> as a path to invoke the vsvars32.bat of the version you want.
> (VS100COMNTOOLS, VS90COMNTOOLS, VS80COMNTOOLS, etc).
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> That might be worth a sentence in the instructions as multiple MSVC's is a
> useful configuration for a build machine. (We also have multiple MinGW's,
> and specific GCC versions are part of some builds).
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Yeah, testing multiple MSVC versions would be good.

-- Sean Silva

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> A build machine then could have multiple versions of MSVC installed to
> allow testing a move from 2010 to 2012, and to 2013.
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2013/10/17/visual-studio-2013-released-to-web.aspx
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