Visual Studio support

[dkrikun]

Hi,

I'm trying to build libucl using Visual Studio 2012, and there are numerous errors (even if I try to compile as C++ code). Have anyboy used libucl with Visual Studio?

Thanks!

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[vstakhov]

Hello, have you specified c99 standard for your compiler?

[dkrikun]

To the best if my knowledge Visual Studio does not support c99 till 2013 On Jan 14, 2015 3:57 PM, "Vsevolod Stakhov" [email protected] wrote:

Hello, have you specified c99 standard for your compiler?

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[dkrikun]

I've checked if Visual Studio 2013 can compile libucl, and it looks like it does not, too. Is it possible that libucl could be made portable to compile under Visual Studio (c89 or c++)? Thx

[bapt]

According to: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-library-support-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx it lacks some important functions like snprintf I would say if you do plan to use libucl on windows, you would better imho use mingw

[dkrikun]

Unfortunately there is an existing codebase that is only buildable in VS. Would be great to see libucl supported on Visual Studio too!

[vstakhov]

I can reply only the same as for issue #61:

Unfortunately, I have no windows machine available for testing and I'm not very experienced in windows development tools. However, if you have a tested patch I'll be happy to review and include it to libucl.