Seth, On 3/6/2019 2:16 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Am 2019-03-06 12:17, schrieb Tomasz Wlostowski: >> Hi, >> >> This patchset enables building KiCad in MS Visual Studio (version 2017, >> not tested on earlier versions). > > Thank you Tom! I would love it if, after testing, we could consider > switching our official MSW builds to MSVC. While the mingw project does > good work, it is substantially slower and doesn't fully implement C++11, > particularly the std::async library but not just. It also doesn't (as > far as I have found) document which parts don't properly work. So we > discover them as we go along. > > A note on patch 0009: the auto-generated libcontext seems to be > substituting windows line termination, so every line is modified. > > -Seth
I think this is probably a good idea but please keep in mind that this would require some major changes to our windows packaging script and a lot of testing before we could make it the default for windows builds. Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp