After this patch curl requires targeting Vista or newer, and a toolchain
with Vista support.
Supported MSVC compilers (VS2010+) all support Vista:
- VS2012+ target Win8 (or later) by default.
- VS2010 targets Win7 by default.
Supported mingw-w64 versions (v3+) all support Vista:
- mingw-w64 v9+ target Win10 by default.
- mingw-w64 v8 and older target Server 2003 (~XP) by default.
After this patch it may be necessary to override the default Windows
target version to Vista (or newer) via:
autotools: `CPPFLAGS=-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600`
cmake: `-DCURL_TARGET_WINDOWS_VERSION=0x0600`
- mingw-w64 v6+ allow changing the default at toolchain build-time.
Notes:
- For non-MSVC, non-mingw-w64 toolchains, `if_nametoindex` needs to be
allowlisted in `curl_setup.h`, if they do support it.
Fixes#17985 (discussion)
Closes#18009
- Fix generate.bat "-clean" option.
- Change version template substitutes to match old files, eg go back to
using format version "11.00" instead of "11.0".
- Limit the vcxproj filters file types that are filtered to c, h, rc.
- Get rid of the tmpl extension from template files and add a README
to the tmpl directory explaining the purpose of the files.
- gitignore VCxx directories entirely rather than individual file types.
- Do not remove the VC directories during clean, instead remove just the
generated project files.
Removing the VC directories has the unwanted behavior of removing files
other than those generated. Visual Studio will generate its own
preference files (like if you have some debug arguments in your .suo)
and those files sit in the VC directories. We ignore those files since
they are the user's files and should not be deleted. Also the user may
have their own untracked files that we shouldn't be deleting.
Follow-up to 57d349fe which consolidated the project templates.
Assisted-by: Viktor Szakats
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18412
The three projects (VC10, VC11, VC12) are identical except 5 repeated
strings in them. They also require running `generate.bat` before use,
to populate source files. Reduce the 3 almost identical projects to
a single template project and populate the repeated strings also via
`generate.bat`. This reduces the maintenance burden to a single copy of
the project files. Also saving 10000 LOCs.
Closes#18396
