feature/vs2012: testing needed

Jan Holesovsky kendy at suse.cz
Tue Sep 4 02:41:18 PDT 2012


Hi Noel,

Noel Grandin píše v Po 03. 09. 2012 v 21:04 +0200:

> >> On another note, it occurred to me that it might be possible to
> >> simplify the windows build by using the mingw windows header files.
> >
> >
> > 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?

Not only that, unfortunately, there are also others in the area of the
native file picker, look eg. at

git log -p -1 330c38edfb2ba1c794166c0d885074b248198da2

All the best,
Kendy



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