visual studio 2013 express

[Michael Stahl]

On 17.07.2015 09:56, Vasily Melenchuk wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
>  
> On 07/14/2015 03:42 PM, Michael Stahl  wrote:
>  
>> anybody has $SUBJECT installed?  /me doesn't, hence this mail...
>> on master configure fails with Express since commit
>> 98a61f5b8da500fcefd2e7f0dfb1231bfb87f2fb  due to a check for devenv.exe,
>> which does not exist in  Express but there is a different executable,
>> probably vcexpress.exe.
> 
> Yes. I've updated locally configure.ac to use "WDExpress.exe" and not "devenv.exe". Seems everything works.
> 
>> does that executable support an /Upgrade switch to upgrade project and
>> solution files?  if not we'll have to drop support for VS Express at
>> some point and require VS Community.
> 
> VS 2013 Expression Edition does not have this switch:
> 
> Command:
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpress.exe" LibreOffice.sln  /Upgrade
> 
> reports back to me:
> Invalid Command Line. Unknown Switch : Upgrade.

thanks for testing that, so Visual Studio Express 2013 should be able to
build again now on master with commit
cdd699eacf853192686095399433384109e565a2,
but unless somebody can show that VS Express 2015 adds support for
/Upgrade switch it cannot be used.