Hi Everyone,
We are working hard to move WebKit toward stronger adoption of C++11 features,
such as variadic templates, ranged for-loops, and initializer lists.
Unfortunately, this effort has been hampered by the small subset of C++11
features available in Visual Studio 2010.
You can get a feel for the level of C++11 support in the last few versions of
Visual Studio here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh567368.aspx
With Visual Studio 2013, we finally have access to a compiler that supports the
major C++11 features we need. Consequently, we intend to switch to VS2013 and
begin taking advantage of these new language constructs.
Over the next week we will be landed a series of source changes that allow
WebKit to be built with VS2013, but will continue to build with VS2010 on our
build machines. Next Friday, we plan to land project file changes to switch to
the new compiler, and will simultaneously convert our build system to use
VS2013 as well.
Once the revised project files are landed, we will no longer be officially
supporting Visual Studio 2010 as a compiler target.
For those playing at home, you can track progress by following
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125192.
WebKit continues to build with the free “Visual Studio 2013 Express” software,
so I do not anticipate that this change will block any external developers from
running Windows builds.
Thanks,
-Brent
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