[x265] Question, is this project VS-centric?

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:03 AM, JMK <three4teen16 at coldmail.nu> wrote:

> Hi there again,
>
> I have to ask this, principally because of the memory leak issue in the
> MSYS builds that was discovered six days ago, and that should have been
> noticed by Tom Vaughan from MultiCoreWare four days ago. Am I right to
> suppose the x265 development team writes mainly for MSVC and test only the
> MSVC builds? I don't find a better explanation for the fact that various
> patches and improvements have been approved/released, but their flaws
> appear only in their respective MSYS builds.
>

This is pure nonsense, the memory leaks occurred in the MSVC builds as
well.  For various reasons the daily leak regressions weren't being run.


> Another thing: please add to the Wiki and/or to the next "Evaluators Guide
> PDF" precise instructions for the users of MSVC about how to create
> XP-compatible binaries. If so many MSVC builds keep returning the message
> "x265.exe is not a valid Win32 application" under Windows XP, obviously the
> problem hasn't been addressed yet. Oh yes, Microsoft will stop supporting
> Windows XP anytime soon, but so what? Not everybody believes in Microsoft's
> "infinite wisdom".
>

There was a cmake ordering issue affecting the XP workaround that was fixed
4 days ago.  But otherwise no, XP is not a priority for us right now.

-- 
Steve Borho
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