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VCRUNTIME140.dll required Why are open source projects built with Visual Studio these days? Especially as binaries built with VS2015 (release and up to servic

by frik 10y ago

VCRUNTIME140.dll required Why are open source projects built with Visual Studio these days? Especially as binaries built with VS2015 (release and up to service pack 2) are known to phone home "by accident". There are the GNU, Mingw, Msys, LLVM options on Windows - completely open source. Offer binary builds with at least one of these compilers on Windows platform.

baq 10y ago
like it or not, VC is a very good compiler and a windows standard, and since not exactly recently, available for free for personal use. you don't have to use visual studio in order to compile software with cl.
- mtanski 10y ago
  It is a windows standard but I wouldn't call it a good compiler. It has traditionally has lacked in the standards department and compiler & code gen bugs have not been fixed with any kind of urgency.
Thainbbdl 10y ago
I found the answer on moz hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-servo-on-windows/#comment-21022 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-se...
- frik 10y ago
  Thanks, that's answer. @Mozilla: so please make the Mingw builds as download package as well. And don't forget to release everything as ZIP packages as well. (not just MSI)
ajdlinux 10y ago
Servo is written primarily in Rust... I'm not a Windows developer by any means, but my understanding was that the major different compilers on Windows aren't ABI compatible. Also it's entirely possible Servo links against an external library that is built with VS.
- deleted 10y ago
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egnehots 10y ago
they don't allow the use of the latest api. ex: listening to dpi changes. but what they could do is to link statically with the runtime.
- connorcpu 10y ago
  Rust can currently statically link the VC CRT, looks like servo doesn't compile with that option at the moment is all
MikusR 10y ago
Got some proof of phoning home?

by frik 10y ago

baq 10y ago

like it or not, VC is a very good compiler and a windows standard, and since not exactly recently, available for free for personal use. you don't have to use visual studio in order to compile software with cl.

mtanski 10y ago
It is a windows standard but I wouldn't call it a good compiler. It has traditionally has lacked in the standards department and compiler & code gen bugs have not been fixed with any kind of urgency.

Thainbbdl 10y ago

I found the answer on moz hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-servo-on-windows/#comment-21022 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-se...

frik 10y ago
Thanks, that's answer. @Mozilla: so please make the Mingw builds as download package as well. And don't forget to release everything as ZIP packages as well. (not just MSI)

ajdlinux 10y ago

Servo is written primarily in Rust... I'm not a Windows developer by any means, but my understanding was that the major different compilers on Windows aren't ABI compatible. Also it's entirely possible Servo links against an external library that is built with VS.

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egnehots 10y ago

they don't allow the use of the latest api. ex: listening to dpi changes. but what they could do is to link statically with the runtime.

connorcpu 10y ago
Rust can currently statically link the VC CRT, looks like servo doesn't compile with that option at the moment is all

MikusR 10y ago

Got some proof of phoning home?