From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compilation problems with latest MSVC Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: <458E65FC.6020705@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166960144 29642 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 11:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 12:35:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyRdj-0003n5-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:35:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyRdi-0001Yp-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyRdY-0001Yf-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:35:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyRdW-0001YB-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyRdW-0001Y3-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.213] (helo=ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GyRdU-0006hC-Lz; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64963 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GyRdS-0002Yv-8d; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:35:23 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0662-1, 2006-12-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GyRdS-0002Yv-8d. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1GyRdS-0002Yv-8d 55bb807b5e1f293eccf244507a3db763 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64206 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It seems like latest versions of MSVC are incompatible with the Emacs > build procedure (MSVC 6 compiles the current CVS just fine). See the > error messages below; this is with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition, > the MS ``freeware'' distribution. > > I could try working on these when I have time, but the question is: do > we care? Is it enough to say that the last version of MSVC we support > is v6? (Does anyone know if Studio 7 is okay?) I think it would be good to be able to compile with MSVC 7 too. I sometimes wonder if strange problems I see have something to do with bugs in the gcc compiler. I am not saying that there are any problems with the gcc compiler. The problems I see are stability problems on my pc. I hoped they would be gone with my new pc using xp, but I have seen some problems again. Of course I have no idea which program causes this, but it would be fine to sometimes be able to run Emacs compiled with MSVC and see if that makes any difference. (The instabilities are very rare however so it is very hard to find out what is wrong. Probably some resource problem.)