Hi Jürgen, We used vc2008 now for like 5 years? or so, and this worked out quite good. Probably we should update more frequently, but I see no reason to rush things either. It will still take some weeks or months to test vc2012 with Blender thoroughly, to use this as a vc2008 replacement for official builds.
So let's finish the vc2012 update first, use it for official builds and then worry about when and if we should update the next time. ;) Thomas Am 28.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Jürgen Herrmann: > Sure! Switch to MinGw, but please do some good testing ;) > I am the last not to support this ;) > > Am 28.06.2013 um 20:13 schrieb Cezary Kopias <cezary.kop...@gmail.com>: > >> From USER: As always speed tests must be performed for such a decision. >> Are there any new VS features that are worth mention? >> >> And as always i will promote mingw-w64 :] >> just read that you can compile windows build under linux - nice >> >> /kopias >> >> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:08:30 +0200, Jürgen Herrmann <shadow...@me.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Logic error corrected inline ;) >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> Out of curiosity I downloaded the VS 2013 Pro preview yesterday. >>>> And while playing with it I had the idea to try blender compilation >>>> with it ;) >>>> I needed to tweak the sources a bit because MSVC 12 seems to break se >>>> things as M$ implements more C++11 features. It took me 30 Minutes to >>>> put a patch together. >>>> But all the libs I compiled with VC11 need to be recompiled :( >>>> So I stopped this insanity ... >>>> >>>> But what I am curious about, what do you guys think? >>>> Shall we adapt new versions if MSVC early (even if we don't use it for >>>> production) or not? >>>> Pro: when we decide to switch to another version (let's assume MSVC >>>> 2016, just for an example) the workload of porting might >>> Not be that huge. >>>> Con: we have to recompile libs and port blender every year (in case MS >>>> keeps this release schedule) >>>> >>>> /Jürgen >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >> -- >> Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- Thomas Dinges Blender Developer, Artist and Musician www.dingto.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers