From 6d46d43aab6894528e746be1c3bd0a9bad65747b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:30:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS, README.win: Officially drop support for non-C99 compilers We're considering MSVC 2015 to be sufficiently close to C99 for our purposes, and we now have CI for it, so we can easily check whether any desired C99 feature works. Other pre-C99 compilers are obsolete. Resolves: dbus#404 Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ README.win | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4ebcd9f6..fa98354f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ dbus 1.15.0 (UNRELEASED) ======================== +Dependencies: + +• dbus now requires either a C99 compiler (such as gcc or clang), + or Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later. Some workarounds for + pre-C99 environments are currently still present, but we plan to + remove them during this development cycle. + Feature removal: • Remove support for the obsolete pam_console and pam_foreground modules diff --git a/README.win b/README.win index 8a5b3c0a..0ed83e03 100644 --- a/README.win +++ b/README.win @@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ test not running yet and there is help needed to get them running. Supported compilers ------------------- -On windows Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express and professional variants) -and mingw-w64|32 are known to work. +Building dbus for Windows requires either Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 +or later, or a recent mingw-w64 compiler. + +Compilers older than the ones we test in continuous integration are +not supported. Building --------