Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 05.01.2006 17:14, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:37 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> >
> > > Matthias Clasen writes:
> > > > That doesn't mean that we can't declare gcc 2.95 unsupported at some
> > > > point,
> > >
> > > We might also want to declare what versions of MSVC (if any)
> > > GTK+/Pango/GLib is at least in theory supposed to be compileable
> > > with. (Whether MSVC can be said to be "supported" is another issue;
The last time I checked is was from 5.0 up to to 7.1 possible. The
issues (except C99isms) are mostly Windows SDK related, not compiler
specific.

> > > building with any MSVC version certainly requires some amount of
> > > manual editing of the makefile.msc files which are indeed included in
> > > GLib and GTK+ tarballs, but as far as I know pretty out of date.)
Yeah you are always telling this. Why not sometimes look in the ChangeLog?
IMO the pending things I haven't commited yet are pretty minimal.

> > Here is one datapoint: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325864
> >
> > Visual C++ 6.0 doesn't support C99 variadic macros.
It does not support variables declared other than at the beginning of
a block either.
> that doesn't tell me anything ;)
> what i really need to know to make any sense of this is:
> - how old is VC++6.0
It is also called VC98, updated until recently. My version (SP6?)
has a date of 2004-02-16

> - what version of VC++ has proper C99 support and when
>   did it come out
As far as I know: none of them. I did not test yet with the
version released in the last month. But if I recall correctly
I've read about C99 not being particular high on the monopolists
priority list.

> - is VC++6.0 something wide-spread that needs to be supported?
>   (if yes, why and for how long?)
As long as GLib/Gtk depends on msvcrt.dll on win32 VC6 is the *last*
official version spporting it. With VC7 (2000) VC7.1 (2003) there
where specific runtime versions (msvcr70.dll and msvcr71.dll) from
some not considered to be compatible with the GPL system library clause.


-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org -----------
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to
get along without it.                -- Dilbert