[hpsdr] VS2015 build questions & help request

[Rick Royston]

Group,
	I appreciate the info.  I may look at simple changes to support VS 2015, but if I ever reach the point that I have a useful module I will build in the common environment of the day.  That will make life simpler for those doing the heavy lifting.  The area I am investigating is pretty tightly compartmentalized as it has even beed suggested as connected only by a virtual ports.

In the short term I want to get some internal visibility into the USB detection of the enumerated devices so the build will be kept local.

Rick-KF4ZZ

Merry Christmas All!


> On Dec 24, 2015, at 12:23 PM, George Byrkit <ghbyrkit at chartermi.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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