MSDN Subscriptions for ASF Committers (was: Re: Building with the latest SDK on Windows)

2016-11-27 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On 26/11/16 07:21, Marcus wrote: > Yes, here and there I see some mails from Apache members regarding > "How can I get access to MSDN?" but I haven't followed this. So, at > the moment I cannot tell you what to do. Information is in the committers repo: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committ

Re: Building with the latest SDK on Windows

2016-11-26 Thread Marcus
Am 11/26/2016 02:53 AM, schrieb Pedro Giffuni: I would expect trouble building with the latest MSVC: at least python requires some changes in the build support and it may also involve losing support for Windows XP. AFAIK we can still support Win XP because technichal changes hadn't any influen

Re: Building with the latest SDK on Windows

2016-11-25 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Raphael; I would expect trouble building with the latest MSVC: at least python requires some changes in the build support and it may also involve losing support for Windows XP. I think it should be possible, and advantageous, to update to MSVC 2010 first. Note that Apache committers have acce

Building with the latest SDK on Windows

2016-11-25 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all The building guide from Apache OpenOffice still points to the Visual Studio 2008 as SDK. I know, this was a requestment for a long time. It is still the same? I have the latest SDK installed cause I use it in a other project. It is worth to give it a try or are the barriers to height.