[edk2-devel] Build fails with VS2012

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 05/11/21 02:14, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> Thanks. The obvious toolchains that are missing from ReadMe.rst are any
> versions of XCODE and CLANG.
> Also, it might be nice to specify _which_ GCC5 versions are supported,
> since that covers gcc 5 through 11 and gcc 5.x currently causes a build
> error. We maybe only care about gcc 7 and newer these days?
> 
> I just tried building with VS2015 and VS2013, and there was a build
> error because it seems the location of rc.exe has changed. After fixing
> that they successfully built OVMF. But it sounds like we possibly only
> want to make sure that VS2017 and VS2019 are kept working now.
> 
> I've cc'd Bret and Sean because I'm wondering if there are plans to add
> more toolchain/OS combinations into the GitHub/Azure solution? For
> example adding macOS with XCODE5? Also, how about post-commit or nightly
> builds that run more extensive tests, possibly generating binaries for
> OVMF that people can try without building it themselves? Or would that
> be something that might be useful for me to implement as a third-party
> solution?
> 

Too many good questions!

Personally, I care for gcc-8, and later.

Thanks
Laszlo



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