[hpsdr] VS2015 build questions & help request

[George Byrkit]

Joe,
Thank you for your reply!  I was only informing Rick why he was having an issue with
VS2015, and informing you and Doug what the apparent compatibility issues with VS2015
were.  I'm still using VS2013 for KISS Konsole maintenance.

Beyond the issue that I identified, I'm not sure that you would find any other issues in
VS2015, since the code involved is C code and not C++ code.  If you have identified any
other issues, I would appreciate hearing about them!

Of course you need to become aware of the issues such as the one that Rick raised.
Otherwise we become stuck too far in the past.  I was part of the group that proposed that
VS2013 (community edition, with the MFC MBCS supplement) was acceptable.  I agree that
you, Doug, Phil and Warren need to work on a common platform.  Yet, making a somewhat
simple change to allow others the possibility of exploring a newer version of Visual
Studio doesn't seem like it should be a significant inconvenience to you all.  If I'm
wrong in that supposition, I'd like to understand why.

I am not, after all, proposing that you move to VS2015 Community Edition as your
development environment.  Only that you do some relatively minor things to not preclude
others from using VS2015 Community Editon.

73,
George K9TRV

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Martin [mailto:k5so at k5so.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:04 PM
To: George Byrkit
Cc: 'Rick Royston'; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org; Doug W5WC
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] VS2015 build questions & help request

Rick, George, 

Doug, Warren, Phil, and I use VS2013 Community in our current development activities, by
mutual agreement to avoid problems with different development tool version
compatibilities, such as you are experiencing with using VS2015.  Some day we may wish to
move to VS2015 Community but that is not today.  There are simply too many changes
presently in flux with software/firmware/protocol issues to unnecessarily complicate
things further by switching development tools midstream during this large development
effort.  

My recommendation to you is to use VS2013 Community if you wish to be compatible with our
current work without issues.  Of course, if you don't mind working through compatibility
issues then by all means use whatever version of tools you wish.  Just thought I'd let you
know what we're presently using.

73, Joe K5SO=


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