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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:03:36 +0200


Le 12 août 2015 7:19 PM, "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> On 12 August 2015 at 17:57, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 12 août 2015 6:21 PM, "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>> >
>> > [Resend]
>> >
>> > I see that several people (Anders, ...) been building with MSVC-2015 (VC14) and have fixed a number of issues.
>> >
>> > So: I decided to download VC14 and give it a try (using NMake).
>> >
>> > A few questions:
>> >
>> > Are you using CMake or NMake ?
>> >
>> > If using NMake, I assume that you've updated config.nmake & etc. Is there some reason you've not committed the changes ?
>> >
>> > If not, I've made what I think are the required changes for NMake. Do you think it's Ok to commit them ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Have you been able to do a complete build ?
>> >
>> > So far:
>> >
>> > 1. Compiling packet-pdc.c gets:
>> >
>> > [...]\packet-pdc.c(205) : fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
>> > (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 246)
>> >  To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above.
>> > Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>> >  Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
>> >
>> > INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe'
>> >     Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>> >     Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
>> >
>> > I've figured out what to change to fix this.
>> > (I've also extracted a much smaller test file which causes the error and will submit the file to Microsoft).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2. I had to disable building with geoip because:
>> >
>> > C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1925): warning C4005: 'snprintf': macro redefinition (compiling source file packet-
>> > ip.c)
>> > [...]\GeoIP-1.5.1-2-win32ws\include\GeoIP.h(36): note: see previous definition of 'snprintf' (compili
>> > ng source file packet-ip.c)
>> > C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt\stdio.h(1927): fatal error C1189: #error:  Macro definition of snprintf conflicts with Stan
>> > dard Library function declaration (compiling source file packet-ip.c)
>> >
>> >
>> > 3. I disabled building with LUA because there's apparently yet no LUA library (dll) for use with VC14.
>>
>> I might have a look at it when coming back from vacation if the packager I used last time did not update the library (I have no reliable Internet access right now, yes this is still possible nowadays :)). But I was not in a hurry as there is no Qt package compiled with MSVC2015 yet, so we still have a strong dependency on MSVC2013.
>>
>> Pascal.
>
> FYI Windows CMake doesn't currently seem to configure without Qt, I'm not too fussed about that as on Windows the Qt version is the main build. 
>
> The QT folks had previously indicated VS2015 support would be released as a 5.5.x release so it's likely not too far off: https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/04/29/windows-10-support-in-qt/
>
> Enjoying your vacation in the mountains Pascal?

Yep, in the Cevennes for now and moving to the Alps soon :)

>
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
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