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The one 32bit binary is used by our users on WinXP, Win7x32, Win8x64. Jimm, you did a bunch of the recent Win8 work, so I guess would have the best context - any compat concerns? tc John. ===== On Wed Feb 27 11:11:52 2013, Alex Keybl wrote: > Can we programmatically verify that we're unaffected? Does this just require > a local Win7 build, or do we need to loop RelEng in? > > -Alex > > On Feb 27, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2013/2/27 Gian-Carlo Pascutto <gpascu...@mozilla.com> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> just a heads up: the Windows 7 platform update that's being shipped >>> today has the following KB article: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838?wa=wsignin1.0 >>> >>> Interesting part: >>> "If you are a Windows 7 DirectX developer who uses the June 2010 DirectX >>> Software Development Kit (SDK), you will have to update your development >>> environments after you install this platform update." >>> >>> As far as I know, we use this for Windows/ANGLE builds. So it's possible >>> these may now be broken? >>> >> >> Fortunately, the next sentence reads: >> >> The following development .dll files that are associated with the DirectX >> SDK <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812> are >> incompatible with this platform update: >> >> - D3D10SDKLayers.dll >> - D3D11SDKLayers.dll >> - D3D10ref.dll >> - D2D1debug.dll >> >> >> The only DirectX SDK DLL that we are still using is D3DCompiler.dll. As it >> isn't listed above, it sounds like we're safe. >> >> That said, it is generally a good idea to upgrade DirectX SDKs when a newer >> one comes out: we do run into D3DCompiler.dll bugs, and there is hope that >> they would be fixed in newer versions. >> >> Benoit >> >> >>> >>> The recommended solution seems to be to use the Win8 SDK, but I >>> understood we need specific flags to compile with that. >>> >>> Can someone who's most familiar with the Windows compiles clear this >>> out, and perhaps update the wiki if needed? >>> >>> -- >>> GCP >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRLlxRAAoJEKNpeL0INApnMNAP+wZ5tjHtg181HC0BncPe7X25 s9OHTD2Q73vtk7BI35ChjlXvrGWxwACAqb+FSGhKWH2Sm7XDEtafJ/oUdkv2eI56 ejROvozA1Rq3+fyr4re7kRVLUIPsqInHUa0MN/CFLLSMBnnYui2D6+NI1D/jkoq6 h6nFWsqhkND8Uz7eu+XQTBbkrKx6mpkRJuTjOTduw55dxoy0MdkRv+m+ldx1FByw 8w8u2Eke7SrIItTQOPDeqzaUZGBcByeIrioPdWlLsT6pkcKGiKBwsRgbgwpwX/09 YQLprlXAroE27dquIR8PgOGhD8PSXiD6RSA+x5KsldKORnbwKxgSfPgo9fYbFXj7 eH+VM6TJJ9FgOtM5B9JYvEbvpexT6sqTTXn5viKf8IcBMUEQK3rPaqu9AjxcqX6z 96NuYzHPjIM5bipOWp9llfCbYpNEsagXhEpMjKhQvVwu18VXBis1dlLEwmECSYNx G8mIM0V1hONkN8h/dke+jiIsuRrD3T2OZ8qUvKDP328+lX6K+vyhFgBbmyFy1J49 s93focp5Wss1Ih+XxeA0lNyD7VZRhVxKjnuSgXH8Mze5c64AFDxFbeEswuDK+TVW 0qI32Dy0izSPij382+XYFnJhKaq5pciisBW6kFL+wSr4IdO/s+eRwbJBo27RUjGO KxOCIjToo8hQO8e8YvTp =LP0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
