Re: [boost] Patch bonanza for VS2013 Preview support

Subject: Re: [boost] Patch bonanza for VS2013 Preview support
From: Charles_J_Wilson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2013-07-03 13:47:35

I've applied the patch set and built a 1.54.0 and am seeing errors in the filesystem object destructors.

Any idea when someone will be able to stand up a test for this platform?

Charles Wilson
Principal Software Development Engineer
Dell | Enterprise Solutions Group

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Lars
> Viklund
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 6:36 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Patch bonanza for VS2013 Preview support
> 
> Hi list.
> 
> What's the best way to spend your vacation if not trying to get Boost to build
> on bleeding-edge compilers. I set out to see how well Boost 1.54.0 behaved
> on the newly released go-live-ready Visual Studio
> 2013 Preview. Below is the list of bugs filed against Boost and Microsoft.
> Enjoy.
> 
> With these patches in place, I can get a complete build working with all
> libraries normally available on a fresh machine (means that I didn't test
> Python, MPI, ICU, compressed streams).
> 
> I haven't been able to find out how to run the tests in any human-readable
> form, but this should not cause any regressions as it's either increasing
> workaround bounds or adding headers that the standard mandates already.
> 
> Boost.Config VS2013 Preview version bump
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8753
> The Visual Studio 2013 Preview toolchain has _MSC_VER 1800 and
> _MSC_FULL_VER 180020617. See the attached patch for the minimum
> changes that are needed to get anywhere at all.
> 
> Boost.Build needs support for the VS2013 Preview toolset (18.00.20617.1)
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8754
> Visual Studio 2013 Preview is out and claims to be 12.0. I copy-pasted
> everything related to 11.0 to refer to 12.0 and it Works On My Machine, see
> attached patch.
> 
> Boost.Signals VS2013 Preview version bump
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8755
> The BOOST_WORKAROUND macros at
> boost/signals/detail/named_slot_map.hpp:130 and
> libs/signals/src/named_slot_map.cpp:27 needs to be increased to <= 1800 in
> order to encompass the Visual Studio 2013 Preview compiler.
> 
> Boost.MPL VS2013 Preview version bump
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8756
> The BOOST_WORKAROUND macros at boost/mpl/assert.hpp lines 37 and 247
> need to be changed to also consider BOOST_MSVC, == 1800, patch attached.
> 
> Boost.Serialization lacks algorithm header include for std::min
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8757
> The <algorithm> header providing std::min is not included in
> boost/archive/iterators/transform_width.hpp, this breaks on Visual Studio
> 2013 Preview due to library changes.
> 
> Boost.Asio lacks algorithm header include for std::min
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8758
> The <algorithm> header providing std::min is not included in
> boost/asio/detail/impl/win_iocp_io_service.hpp, this breaks on Visual Studio
> 2013 Preview due to library changes.
> 
> std::bind broken with boost/tuple/tuple.hpp or anything else providing a ADL
> tie
> https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/792163/std-
> bind-lack-of-qualifier-on-tie-finds-non-std-tie-by-adl
> Not our fault, I filed a bug on Connect and am hoping that they'll notice it
> before RTM. 'std::bind' finds our 'tie' if a type from a boost namespace is
> used in the 'std::function' argument type list.
> 
> --
> Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]
> 
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