Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:20:18 -0500

On 12/06/2017 08:44 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Hi Michael,
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> Following the MSDN link in your message it says that the option /std:c++14 is supported in VS2015.  In fact it says this:
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> The /std:c++14 and /std:c++latest options are available beginning in Visual C++ 2013 Update 3.
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> However, I just did some Google searching, and it appears that the line above may actually be a typo, because other sources indicate that this option was added in Visual C++ 2015 Update 3, not 2013.  That would explain why it is not working for me.
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> I am not sure if it is possible to update the Community Edition 2015 to Update 3, or if I need to install 2017.  Does anyone else know?
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> Do you plan to require using either 2010 (which works) or 2015 Update 3 or 2017 (assuming they work) for EPICS 7?  Or will the code be changed to work with these older compilers?

I'll try my best to make it work in both cases.  It's more a question of having a test environment.

> Mark
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> ________________________________
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:07 PM
> To: Peterson, Kevin M.; Johnson, Andrew N.; EPICS tech-talk
> Subject: Re: EPICS 7 Release Candidate 1
> 
> On 12/05/2017 03:17 PM, Peterson, Kevin M. wrote:
>> d:\epics7\base-7.0.1-rc1\modules\pva2pva\pdbapp\pdbgroup.h(136): note: see declaration of 'PDBGroupChannel'
>> ../pdb.cpp(61): error C2664: 'std::shared_ptr<PVIFBuilder>::shared_ptr(std::shared_ptr<PVIFBuilder> &&) noexcept': cannot convert argument 1 from 'std::auto_ptr
>> <PVIFBuilder>' to 'std::auto_ptr<PVIFBuilder> &&'
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> hmm, seems like that MSVC implementation of shared_ptr doesn't have all of the constructor overloads.
> Maybe they've just jumped the gun by removing the deprecated (in c++17) form, even when building in c++98?
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> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/shared_ptr
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> Can you try to rebuild everything in >= c++11 mode by adding the "/std" compiler flag?
> When built with >= c++11 compatibility, unique_ptr is used instead of (deprecated) auto_ptr here.
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> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt490614.aspx
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System