Add support for VS2015 (VC++ 14.0)

Due to the rewritten CRT in this version of Visual C++ it is no longer
possible (or at least not at all easy) to make use of the ioinfo struct,
which commit b47a847f62 (re-)introduced in order to fix RT#120091/118059.
Therefore, we effectively revert commit b47a847f62 for VS2015 onwards on
the basis that being able to build with VS2015 onwards is more important
than the RT#120091/118059 bug fix. This does unfortunately mean that perls
built with <=VS2013 will not be compatible with perls built with >=VS2015,
but they may well not have been compatible anyway because of the CRT
rewrite, and certainly wouldn't be compatible if perl builds with VS2015
were not supported!

See RT#125714 for more discussion about this.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 1b6825081d..0e891fc17b 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ that are also supported by perl's makefile.
 =back
 
 The Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given away free. They are
-available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2013 Express
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2015 Express
 Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK") and are the same
 compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional" or "Visual C++
-2005-2013 Professional" respectively.
+2005-2015 Professional" respectively.
 
 This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
 
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ console already set up for your target architecture (x86-32 or x86-64 or IA64).
 With the newer compilers, you may also use the older batch files if you choose
 so.
 
-=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2013 Express Edition
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2015 Express Edition
 
-These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2013 Professional contain the same
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2015 Professional contain the same
 compilers and linkers that ship with the full versions, and also contain
 everything necessary to build Perl, rather than requiring a separate download
 of the Windows SDK like previous versions did.
@@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>.  (Providing ex
 links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
 changing so often.)
 
-Install Visual C++ 2008-2013 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
+Install Visual C++ 2008-2015 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
 
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
 
 (assuming the default installation location was chosen).
 
 Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile.  You will need to edit that
-file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC120FREE first.
+file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC140FREE first.
 
 =item Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
 
@@ -421,8 +421,8 @@ There should be no test failures.
 If you build with Visual C++ 2013 then three tests currently may fail with
 Daylight Saving Time related problems: F<t/io/fs.t>,
 F<cpan/HTTP-Tiny/t/110_mirror.t> and F<lib/File/Copy.t>. The failures are
-caused by bugs in the CRT in VC++ 2013 which will be fixed in future releases
-of VC++, as explained by Microsoft here:
+caused by bugs in the CRT in VC++ 2013 which are fixed in VC++2015 and
+later, as explained by Microsoft here:
 L<https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/811534/utime-sometimes-fails-to-set-the-correct-file-times-in-visual-c-2013>. In the meantime,
 if you need fixed C<stat> and C<utime> functions then have a look at the
 CPAN distribution Win32::UTCFileTime.
@@ -950,6 +950,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
 
 Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
 
-Last updated: 07 October 2014
+Last updated: 19 February 2017
 
 =cut