Re: Building an X86 binary with Visual Studio Community 2013

Dear Biswajit,

Thanks for your efforts.  Manifest files are one of the annoyance of
updating to a newer version of VS.

Good luck, and please keep xemacs-beta informed of your progress.

  - Vin


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Biswajit Khandai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vin,
>         I tried to build a native binary using VS Community 2013. The
> underlying VS is the 2012 version.
>
> First I ran into the problem of mismatching versions of optional libs. The
> config.inc was expecting different versions from the versions installed by
> optional_libs.exe . I changed the versions in config.inc ,. That was easy.
>
> Next I started running into real problems.
>
> I see two kinds of errors. One kind is to do with missing manifest files.
> Another kind has to do with keywords being used in macros (or something like
> that).
>
> Doing some Googling, I saw that adding a pragma (as follows) may help with
> the second kind of error, I added the following pragma to config.h.in
> (around line # 899) but it didn't seem to help really.
>
> #pragma warning (1 : 4005)
>
> Anyways, here is the log file from the build attempt.
>
> -Biswajit
>
>