Re: [Freeglut-developer] Final call for testing RC3

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Hi Nigel,

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Nigel Stewart <nig...@gm...> wrote:
>> Can someone test on windows? I still have not been able to replace my
>> expired visual studio.
>
> I gave it a quick spin on Windows7 with VC12.
> It all built and ran fine, although I was not thorough.

Good. I have tested an earlier RC thoroughly, and no changes have been
made since that should mess things up. So as long as things build we
should be fine. Thanks!

> A few comments, nothing that ought to hold up a release:
>
> - My intial expectation was that there would be Visual Studio projects.
> - I poked around a bit before realizing that I'd need to use cmake.
> - For me, the necessary cmake invocation was:  cmake -G "Visual Studio 12"

Indeed, as john said, using the GUI may be easiest.

> I also got a memory leak reported...
>
> 'subwind.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll'. Symbols loaded.
> 'subwind.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll'
> Detected memory leaks!
> Dumping objects ->
> {99} normal block at 0x03D31328, 17 bytes long.
>  Data: <CVVV            > 43 56 56 56 00 CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD
> {98} normal block at 0x03D312D8, 17 bytes long.
>  Data: <BB              > 42 42 00 CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD
> {97} normal block at 0x03D31288, 17 bytes long.
>  Data: <BBB             > 42 42 42 00 CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD
> {96} normal block at 0x03D31238, 17 bytes long.
>  Data: <                > 00 CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD
> {95} normal block at 0x03D311E8, 17 bytes long.
>  Data: <                > 00 CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD CD
> {94} normal block at 0x03D31198, 20 bytes long.
>  Data: <    8           > E8 11 D3 03 38 12 D3 03 88 12 D3 03 D8 12 D3 03
> Object dump complete.

Thanks for reporting this, haven't seen it before. Lets not hold up
the release for this tiny leak, which probably is in the demo itself.
Will keep this on a todo list.

All the best,
Dee