firebird on MSVC2015 [was: minutes of ESC call ...]

[Adrian Marius Popa]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel <at> mamane.lu> writes:


> 
> > v2.5 is officially built using VC2005 but also supports VC2008 and
> > VC2010 (used by some our developers).
> > v3.0 is officially built using VC2010 but also supports
> > VC2012/2013.
> > v4.0 will be officially built using VC2013.
> 
> > I don't want to promise anything for v2.5 which is likely to be
> > discontinued in two years, but I see no reason why v3 and v4 cannot
> > be compiled using VC2015 or whatever later. Obviously, it's not our
> > top priority. We just need someone to setup VC2015 and give it a
> > try.
> 
> So one way forward would be to switch to Firebird 3.0 (which is at RC2
> level), anticipating MSVC2015 compatibility "soon" (and enable it on
> Windows when the compatibility arrives); looks like if we make the
> patches ourselves, they would gladly accepted them.
> 
> We could also use the above "unofficial" variant of Firebird 2.5, but
> my personal taste would be towards the future (version 3) rather than
> staying with 2.5.
> 
> My plan is to try to invest GSoC resources into the above. No veto?
> 

We also accept now github pull requests so it will be easier in the future 
to integrate with new IDE versions or compilers 

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

There are a few commits already with VC14 support 
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/commit/21b76bf44fd8c5ef3526fd77d53c6
b43d7594fa0
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/commit/9ae426a75778ddb46273012f8aecb
2018aa0d087