The patches have landed. Thanks! Are we ready to update this page?: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:29 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen <rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > While I know I'm tempting fate by sending this out while the patches are > still on autoland, I wanted to start giving people a heads-up now that bug > 1424281 has been pushed, which will make Visual Studio 2017 15.6 (Update 6) > the minimum version required to build Gecko 61+ once it merges to m-c. > > This change brings a number of improvements over version 15.4, which is > what we've been using in automation since Gecko 58, including performance > wins and better C++17 support. Release notes for versions 15.5 and 15.6 are > linked below with more details: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes-v15.5#a-idlibimprov-a-visual-c-improvements > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes#CPlusPlus > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/12/19/c17-progress-in-vs-2017-15-5-and-15-6/ > > If you're currently using Visual Studio 2015, you can download the 2017 > installer from https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/. If you already > have 2017 installed, you should only need to launch the Visual Studio > Installer already on your system and follow the update prompts. Note that > the Windows SDK minimum version was also bumped to version 15063 to match > what we've been using in automation. It is also installable via the Visual > Studio Installer if needed. > > Enjoy! > > -Ryan > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platf...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds