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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The free version is actually very complete for many use cases:
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> No doubt I'm out of touch. :)  It's been at least 10 years since I used
> msvs.  It's great that they have decided to support open source
> development tools.  I'm may to to check it out when I get a chance.  I'm
> guessing they have a minimal free version available or have they stopped
> offering that?
>
> On 3/12/2018 11:36 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> > Way out of touch now Wayne ;)
> >
> > VS can open CMake projects directly without generator. Also supports
> > GDB.....MINGW....and even ships with Clang. MS even patched all their
> > VC++ headers to be compatible with Clang.
> >
> >
> > I haven't tried this yet though, but in theory it should be possible to
> > run MSYS2/MINGW and debug via this new feature from last year that lets
> > you configure toolchains and even use gdb:
> >
> > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/07/19/using-
> mingw-and-cygwin-with-visual-cpp-and-open-folder/
> > <https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/07/19/using-
> mingw-and-cygwin-with-visual-cpp-and-open-folder/>
> >
> > In this example it is using MSYS2.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     It's been a really long time since I've done this but you should be
> able
> >     to tell cmake to create a VSxxxx project (`cmake -G "Visual Studio 14
> >     2015 [arch]`") and then use msvs to build.  You might want to disable
> >     python scripting, oce, and ngspice unless you feel like building msvc
> >     variant of those dependencies.  You will also need a msvc build of
> boost
> >     as well for the unit test library.  I'm pretty sure Simon Richter
> >     creates msvs builds so he may have some more up to date information
> than
> >     I do.
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
> >     On 3/9/2018 9:48 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> >     > Dear Windows experts,
> >     >
> >     > I'm desperately trying to debug a segfault in a Windows build of
> >     Kicad.
> >     > So far I've been unable to pause the program in gdb, because gdb
> exits
> >     > when I press Ctrl-C instead of pausing the application.
> >     >
> >     > I'm fed up with this 'unix style of doing things'.
> >     >
> >     > Could you help me set up a VS2015 project for building and
> debugging
> >     > Kicad? Is there some tutorial?
> >     >
> >     > Cheers,
> >     > Tom
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
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