Update: the switch will happen early in version 36. The build machines needed a reinstall of VS2013 due to a deployment issue. As merge day is coming up, it's not a good time for major changes. We'll wait for 36 to have more bake time.
On the plus side, we picked up Update 3 in the process. David ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Major" <dma...@mozilla.com> > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, firefox-...@mozilla.org > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:27:58 PM > Subject: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 > > We plan to switch the Windows build machines to Visual Studio 2013 on the > Firefox 35 train. > > Some benefits from this change: > * No more linker OOM crashes. VS2013 includes a 64-bit toolchain for 32-bit > builds, so the linker will no longer be limited to 4GB address space. > * The linker capacity opens the door for merging our binaries into libxul > (like we do on the other platforms) > * More than 2x improvement in PGO build times > * Better language support > > The tracking bug is 914596. The remaining blockers are here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=914596&hide_resolved=1 > > David > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
