bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-06 Thread Kees Dekker
runtime DLLs. Please let me know your thoughts, Regards, Kees Dekker

bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-06 Thread Kees Dekker
>gnulib has been updated to work with this platform on 2016-12-13, see >http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=5506db6b006274762bf5ea1d23feb7a9801529c8 >Eric Blake replied: >> If you can help port gnulib to the newer visual studio 2015, I'm sure >> patches are welcome. >> ...

bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-06 Thread Kees Dekker
>Are the mentioned patches in the snapshot that was provided by Jim? >In any case, I will check today. Thanks for prompt replies. >If you like, I can share some additional changes I've made, e.g. Visual Studio >does not like -g flag, a WIN32 define that should be _WIN32 (a CL.exe built-in >macro

bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-07 Thread Kees Dekker
Hi Bruno, >Most of these troubles should go away if you use the 'compile' and 'ar-lib' >auxiliary scripts, as described in section 2 of >http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gperf.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.windows >These instructions were tested with GNU gperf and a couple of other GNU >packages

bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-08 Thread Kees Dekker
>> 1. frexp.c is not needed, as Visual Studio already provides frexp() >> function via system libraries. >But probably with bugs. And even if it is not needed on your platform, >it is part of the tarball to replace broken frexp() on systems where it >is buggy. Part of configure determines

bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

2017-02-08 Thread Kees Dekker
Hi Bruno, Thanks for reply. >> 1. frexp.c is not needed, as Visual Studio already provides frexp() >> function via system libraries. ... >Do you have data that shows that MSVC14's frexp() behaves better than the one >in MSVC 9? Do you have advice how I can check this quickly? Visual Stu