Re: Compilation problems with latest MSVC

[David Robinow]

On 12/24/06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> It seems like latest versions of MSVC are incompatible with the Emacs
> build procedure (MSVC 6 compiles the current CVS just fine).  See the
> error messages below; this is with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition,
> the MS ``freeware'' distribution.
>
> I could try working on these when I have time, but the question is: do
> we care?  Is it enough to say that the last version of MSVC we support
> is v6?  (Does anyone know if Studio 7 is okay?)
Both Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .NET 2003 work fine. I've
been compiling Emacs  with them both since they came out.
 There is a warning that debugtype:both is no longer supported.  I
don't remember which type it actually uses.  As shown below, this
warning became an error in Visual Studio 2005.
>     >nmake bootstrap
>
>     Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 7.00.8882
>     Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved.
>
>             cl -I. -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -nologo 
> -D_X86_=1 -c -Zel -W2 -H63 -Oxsb2 -Oy- -G6dF -Zp8 -Zi -Di386  -D_CRTAPI1=_cdecl 
> -Foobj-spd/i386\ addsection.c
>     cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Ze' has been deprecated and will 
> be removed in a future release
>     cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'H' has been deprecated and will 
> be removed in a future release
>     cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-G6'
>     addsection.c
>             link -out:obj-spd/i386/addsection.exe  -nologo -release 
> -incremental:no -version:3.10 -swaprun:cd -swaprun:net setargv.obj -debug:full 
> -debugtype:both obj-spd/i386/addsection.obj libc.lib  oldnames.lib user32.lib
>     LINK : warning LNK4224: /DEBUG:FULL is no longer supported;  ignored
>     LINK : fatal error LNK1117: syntax error in option 'debugtype:both'
>     NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x45d'
>     Stop.
>
> The compiler identifies itself as follows:
>
>     Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 
> 80x86
Visual Studio 6:  Version 12.00.8168   MSC_VER == 1200   Linker
version 6.00.8477
                         NMAKE_VER = 6.00.8168.0

Visual Studio .NET: Version 13.00.9466   Linker version 7.00.9466