feature/vs2012: testing needed

[Noel Grandin]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> On another note, it occurred to me that it might be possible to
>> simplify the windows build by using the mingw windows header files.
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> With MSVC? Not a good idea. One main difference between an MSVC build and a
> MinGW build is that in a MinGW build some parts of the code (don't exactly
> remember what) is not compiled, exactly because the required headers are not
> present in MinGW (mingw-w64, actually, and don't let the "64" confuse you,
> that is just part of the project name, does not indicate bitness in the LO
> case).

Probably the ATL headers. But weren't you trying to remove our
dependency on those?


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>> That would eliminate at least one complicated step
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> Surely installing the Windows SDK is not complicated.
>

More complicated than you might expect, since not always versions of
the Windows SDK seem to have all of the bits we need.
I generated quite a lot of traffic on the LO list back in Dec/Jan
getting all of the relevant bits set up.