Consider instead building with clang-cl: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Building_Firefox_on_Windows_with_clang-cl
If you build with clang-cl, you can keep the newest (gecko-incompatible) version of MSVC installed, which is particularly useful if you build other modern codebases. On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Matthew N. <ma...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 2018-05-08 6:40 a.m., Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: >> >> Yesterday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0. Unfortunately, it >> is currently not usable for building Firefox due to bug 1458247 (internal >> compiler errors in WebRTC code). The bug was already reported and >> confirmed >> upstream during the 15.7 preview cycle, but unfortunately the final >> release >> still shipped with the bug present. >> >> At this point, there are no workarounds available for this issue, so avoid >> the update if you want to be able to continue building Firefox. > > > If you need to update to 15.6 but hadn't yet, you can download old versions > at > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/installing-an-earlier-release-of-vs2017 > > - MattN > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
