On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:29:12PM +0100, Francesco Giudici wrote: > In order to meaningfully use the g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() function > the C runtime used by GLib is required, which is msvcrt.dll. In current > Microsoft compilers it is near impossible to convince it to build code > that would use msvcrt.dll. The last Microsoft compiler version that > supported using msvcrt.dll as the C runtime was version 6. The GNU > compiler and toolchain for Windows, also known as Mingw, fully supports > msvcrt.dll. > For this reason, drop the SIGINT handler when building with Microsoft > Visual Studio. IMHO we should explicitly not support the microsoft compilers at all. Just mandate use of GCC or CLang, as they are available for every OS platform that matters and support a much better feature set and would allow us to simplify code by making use of C extensions such as "g_autoptr". Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
