[Audacity-devel] MSVC 2013 Yes. wxWidgets 3.0.1 Maybe.

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

We intend that MSVC 2013 will be used to build the next released 
Audacity, which will be numbered 2.1.0.  For 2.1.0 we will no longer 
support building on Windows XP.

Leland has deprecated the old MSVC 2008 project files.  I currently 
build with both these deprecated project files, with MSVC2008, and with 
the new project files with MSVC2013 (both Express).   I plan to stop 
building with MSVC2008 from Nov 1st.  We will not maintain the old 
project files after that.  Possibly the version in SVN will already be 
unusable for building SVN head by then.  I hope most people won't need 
to switch back and forth between tools, which is a reason for setting an 
end time for the switchover.  If we do complete the switchover sooner, 
and it sounds like we are on course for doing so, with many people 
already using MSVC 2013, great.

Audacity 2.1.0 will continue to run on Windows XP.



It's less clear for wxWidgets 3.0.1.  For wxWidgets 3.0.1, I am building 
and running Audacity fine.  I had a few minor issues which I have 
fixed.  The one remaining one is with the TagsEditor.  I've had crashes 
when it closes.  I am 90% sure that is down to changes in wxString.  I 
think we are doing some dodgy memory allocation/deallocation which we 
get away with in wx 2.8.12!  The TagsEditor leaks memory in both 
versions, so fixing that may give some clues.

If anyone else besides me and Leland is also building with wx3.0.1 and 
wants to share experience of that, please do so.   It will help us 
decide.  It's currently slightly more likely than not that we will shift 
to wx3.0.1 for 2.1.0.


--James.