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authorChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2020-08-26 16:34:55 +0800
committerChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2020-08-26 16:34:55 +0800
commitee58ada474828318472f5620940f1516efe80024 (patch)
treeae558592264b99a1c26d37368c038c4475b220f5 /README.msvc
parent2f497743f14d305dc9708b19f7c92025fae00362 (diff)
downloadlibsoup-ee58ada474828318472f5620940f1516efe80024.tar.gz
README.msvc: Inform to disable tests on older MSVC
The test programs have been written in C99, which will not work on older Visual Studio (pre-2013), so let people know that they may want to build without the tests in this situation.
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@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ To do a build using Meson, do the following:
python $(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)\scripts\meson.py $(LIBSOUP_SRCDIR) --buildtype=$(build_configuration) --prefix=$(INSTALL_PREFIX) -Dsysprof=disabled [--backend=vs]
Also pass in -Dgssapi=false if not building with GSSAPI support.
+ For pre-Visual Studio 2013, pass in -Dtests=false, since the tests are written in
+ C99 syntax.
Please see the Meson docs for an explanation for --buildtype, the path passed for
--prefix need not to be on the same drive as where the build is carried out, but