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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I don't see anything in this patch set that makes me want to cringe so
once 5.1 is released, I'm fine with merging them.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/6/2019 12:17 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patchset enables building KiCad in MS Visual Studio (version 2017,
> not tested on earlier versions). It is largely based on patches &
> library builds by Simon Richter (thanks a lot!), with some improvements:
> - no MSVC-specific patches other than setting the compiler parameters.
> - no need for require boost::context workarounds as libcontext now
> supports MSVC through native Windows Fiber API.
> - prebuilt environment [1], containing the right versions of libraries
> and tools (CMake & CMake modules). The supplied libraries currently
> support only debug x86_64 targets.
> 
> Some of you might ask why bother with MSVC support? Here's a bunch of
> reasons:
> - A debugger that really works. GDB under Windows offers,
> euphemistically speaking, sub-optimal user experience (very slow, Ctrl-C
> kills the debugger instead of stopping the application being debugged,
> enormous size of debug symbols).
> - Much faster builds. GCC is very fast under Unix systems, but under
> Unix emulation (MINGW) all the speed disappears.
> - MSVC runtime libraries are quite different from the GNU/OSX ones. This
> has already led to discovery of some critical bugs (StrNumCmp()). In
> general. Building and testing KiCad with a non-GCC/Clang compiler can
> only improve the quality of our code.
> - I'm hoping new developers will join us. After all, 90% of desktop
> software is made for Windows, most of it is written in VS and proficient
> developers don't like switching their IDEs too often.
> 
> Happy testing,
> Tom
> 
> PS. Could someone of our website maintainers give some space to host the
> archive [1] on kicad-pcb.org?
> 	
> [1] https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/UaFwaznK4258kZC
> 
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