[Vm-dev] compiling VM with MSVC

[Tobias Pape]

Hi

> On 06.12.2018, at 10:38, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Last year, I've tried to compile opensmalltalk vm with MSVC but, it was not possible with 2017 edition...
> 
> Good news, it seems that Mircrosoft made progress since then:
> 
> https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/comments/399091/view.html?utm_source=newcomment&utm_medium=email
> 
> MSVC can be interesting for a few things:
> - a relatively good debugger for the C world - I know, it's difficult to sell this to Smalltalkers :)
> - easier integration of native libraries than thru mingw
> - complementary set of compilation warnings (and runtime errors) to help polishing some corner cases of our code generator.
> 
> Of course, without CMake, we're back to manually crafting a MSVC project, but it can pay when chasing hard bugs (which I was after last year).

Go for it!

Maybe some of my experiments also help:
	https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/compare/18243a65b8d47740c48b4deb51c24b2eddec6cb5...7e603e7
(the diff is the wrong way around, I remember this dance…, thank you for helping me back then, nicolas!)

Best regards
	-Tobias