81702 - VC6 required to build on Windows

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect, P4)

Description

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

VC6 is now required to build Mozilla on Windows, but
http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html#ss2.1 states VC5/SP3 would suffice.

I can build it with VC5/SP3 if I apply a few patches, but I cannot get around
bug 52219, which is resolved wontfix.

Comment 1

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Resetting Target Milestone for re-evaluation.
I'm not asking to be able to build with VC5, I request a change to a single char
in the documentation at http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html#ss2.1 :

- Microsoft Visual C++ version 5.0 or later
+ Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later

I have spent a lot of time trying to build with VC5. With this small change
others may be prevented from such a disappointment.

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

leaf, granrose, are we no longer supporting VC5?

Comment 3

[Dawn Endico]

just spoke to granrose. he said that leaf won't be supporting vc5 but 
if people submit patches then vc5 may work again. so i added that 
vc5 "may or may not work" rather than completely writing it off.

Comment 4

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Opened bug 82346 to track issues with VC5, so this bug can be closed.

Comment 5

[Jon Granrose]

resolving fixed based on endico's change to the docs, and reporters comments.

Comment 6

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Verified.