[Botan-devel] Help with Windows build

[Jeff B <je...@ho...>]

I'm trying to get the 1.2.4 build to compile with Visual Studio .NET 2003 
(ver 7) and I'm having a bit of trouble.  Here's what I've done so far:


1. D/l 1.2.4 source 
(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/opencl/Botan-1.2.4.tgz) and unzipped
2. Ran configure.pl (I believe I used "perl configure.pl msvc-windows-i486")
3. ran VS, created a Visual C++ Win32 console application
4. added the contents of Botan's SRC directory to the new project
5. Went into the project's settings and
    a) Turned off using precompiled headers
    b) Added the Botan\include path to the "include additional directories" 
setting.
6. Rebuilt my test project

OK, first issue: There are a _LOT_ of compile warnings.  One of the 
warnings, C4290, found in base.h, line 42,
      void set_key(const byte[], u32bit) throw(Invalid_Key_Length);

is about exception specification being ignored.  Doing a search on C4290 in 
VS, I found "Handling Exceptions, part 6" in Deep C++, which goes on to say 
that VS ignores the exception specification at run time.  Lovely, I thought 
VS .NET 2003 was supposed to bring conformance to ANSI C++.

Is this warning a known issue or is my configure.pl settings wrong, or do I 
need to set any additional parameters in the project?  I can just silence 
the warning, but it seems dangerous.  OK, so much for the warnings.  Moving 
on...


7. At the end of the build, I get 3 errors pertaining to get_ciph.cpp, line 
87, which is

Keyed_Filter* get_cipher(const std::string& algo_spec, Cipher_Dir direction)
   {
   struct Invalid_Combination : public Exception
      {
      Invalid_Combination(const std::string& mode, const std::string& pad) :
         Exception("Invalid mode/padding pair: " + mode + "/" + pad) {}
      };


The compiler doesn't like
        Exception("Invalid mode/padding pair: " + mode + "/" + pad)


Are these known issues?

Are my configure options correct?



TIA,


Jeff

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