If you look at the Microsoft implementation of string, it has an explicit conversion to char * allowed.
-----Original Message----- From: boinc_dev [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Eric J Korpela Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:19 AM To: Jord van der Elst Cc: Rom Walton; BOINC Dev Mailing List Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] WINBUILD: Minimum supported VS is now VS 2010 Nothing quite like spending a few hundred dollars to compile free software, is there? It's not clear from Rom's message whether the incompatibility is in the project files (or that it's too much work to maintain the old project files), or whether its a newer visual C++ version that is necessary. If it's just the maintenence of old project files and required libraries, a volunteer could do it. As a means of relaxing, I've been slowly working on cross compiling with mingw32/64 on Linux and Cygwin, but, of course, there's no clear indications of what features are necessary in wxWidgets to compile boincmgr. At least I have the libraries and client compiling. Of course, MSVC++ happily and silently compiles things that aren't legal on gcc (like implicit conversions from string to char *, what's that about?), so there are a hunderd things to fix to get it working. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Jord van der Elst <els...@gmail.com> wrote: > WINBUILD: Minimum supported VS is now VS 2010 > > So then that means that someone has to retest and rewrite all and > everything of > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CompileClient#Windows as the > compilers the page is written for are VS 2005 (Express) and 2008. > > And what VS, full VS or is Express also an option? > Or is Express still not capable of compiling 64bit applications? > > Thanks, > > -- Jord van der Elst. > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
