From 22291ce82e4e3c783bf4a045deda9630c116d598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chun-wei Fan Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:32:14 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] README.win32.md: Mention about Window 8+ SDK requirement This release series of GLib began using features that are provided in the Windows 8 SDK and later for Visual Studio builds. This also means that it is no longer possible to build GLib with Visual Studio 2008 nor 2010 since the Windows 8+ SDKs do not work with those compiler versions. Mention that people that still need to use those Visual Studio versions should continue sticking on to glib-2.66.x, and so remove the section about the workarounds that need to be applied for Visual Studio 2008 builds, since they are no longer applicable. --- README.win32.md | 23 +++++------------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.win32.md b/README.win32.md index 2925d3ddf..17b36acbf 100644 --- a/README.win32.md +++ b/README.win32.md @@ -161,22 +161,9 @@ To overcome this problem, please set your system's locale setting for non-Unicod English (United States), reboot, and restart the build, and the code should build normally. -### Visual Studio 2008 hacks +### Support for pre-2012 Visual Studio -- You need to run the following lines from your build directory, to embed the - manifests that are generated during the build, assuming the built binaries - are installed to `$(PREFIX)`, after a successful build/installation: - -```cmd -> for /r %f in (*.dll.manifest) do if exist $(PREFIX)\bin\%~nf mt /manifest %f $(PREFIX)\bin\%~nf;2 -> for /r %f in (*.exe.manifest) do if exist $(PREFIX)\bin\%~nf mt /manifest %f $(PREFIX)\bin\%~nf;1 -``` - - -- If building for amd64/x86_64/x64, sometimes the compilation of sources may seem to hang, which - is caused by an optimization issue in the 2008 x64 compiler. You need to use Task Manager to - remove all running instances of `cl.exe`, which will cause the build process to terminate. Update - the build flags of the sources that hang on compilation by changing its `"/O2"` flag to `"/O1"` - in `build.ninja`, and retry the build, where things should continue to build normally. At the - time of writing, this is needed for compiling `glib/gtestutils.c`, `gio/gsettings.c`, - `gio/gsettingsschema.c` and `gio/tests/gsubprocess-testprog.c` +This release of GLib requires at least the Windows 8 SDK in order to be built +successfully using Visual Studio, which means that it is no longer supported to +build GLib with Visual Studio 2008 nor 2010. People that still need to use +Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 should continue to use glib-2.66.x.