Discussion:
[Audacity-devel] Audacity compiled with visual studio
Justin Halls
2017-06-27 14:31:39 UTC
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Hi

I am quite new to Audacity devel although I have been a user of Audacity for
a while.

I have got the Henrici build of Audacity compiling under VS2017 quite nicely
after a few

Initial problems, largely due to the WxWidgets builds using different target
paths from

Those expected by the Audacity build. Once fixed it built and ran nicely
albeit with the

'new look' icons.



I am now trying to find a downloadable (or old on DVD) copy of VS2013 as I
have a tweak that

I would like to submit. It is only a few lines to make the name of a new
label track default to the

Name of the currently selected (or only) track, if any, instead of
defaulting to the name 'Label Track'.

When annotating large collections of wav files this would save considerable
time and I can't see

That that is any worse a default than 'Label Track'.



The suggestion below seems to imply that you still need to have VS2013
installed inorder to be

Able to use its toolset.



Justin
I guess it isn't easy to adapt it to VS 15/17.
Last time that I've tried, it succeeded in 18 projects and failed in 5.
WXWidgets had a good "Migration" report after importing but had also
some problems building afterwards.
Someone was able to build with VS2015, if I don't err.
I would be happy to migrate to 2017 since NVDA does for some strange
reason refuse to read the editor content in VS2013.
Robert, you can use visual studio 2017, and still use the 2013 compiler, as
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/02/24/stuck-on-an-older-toolse
t-version-move-to-visual-studio-2015-without-upgrading-your-toolset/
For just desktop development, visual studio 2017 takes up about 5GB on
disk.
David.
Robert
Has anyone on the list got a build of Audacity compiled with visual
studio
2015 (or 2017) which they could make available for me to download?
It doesn't have to be up to date with the latest commits, and it
doesn't matter what version of wxWidgets it uses.
Background: There is currently a problem using the "creators" update
of windows 10, that Audacity can crash when using the Jaws screen
reader.
Window 10 is not officially listed as a target for visual studio
2013,
so I
wanted to check if this is the problem.
thanks,
David.
Gale Andrews
2017-06-27 16:10:40 UTC
Permalink
There is a link to VS2013 in the yellow box here:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Windows

but VS2013 may not install if you already have VS2017.

You might have to use a different computer or partition and
install VS2013 before installing VS2017.



Gale
Post by Justin Halls
Hi
I am quite new to Audacity devel although I have been a user of Audacity for
a while.
I have got the Henrici build of Audacity compiling under VS2017 quite nicely
after a few
Initial problems, largely due to the WxWidgets builds using different target
paths from
Those expected by the Audacity build. Once fixed it built and ran nicely
albeit with the
‘new look’ icons.
I am now trying to find a downloadable (or old on DVD) copy of VS2013 as I
have a tweak that
I would like to submit. It is only a few lines to make the name of a new
label track default to the
Name of the currently selected (or only) track, if any, instead of
defaulting to the name ‘Label Track’.
When annotating large collections of wav files this would save considerable
time and I can’t see
That that is any worse a default than ‘Label Track’.
The suggestion below seems to imply that you still need to have VS2013
installed inorder to be
Able to use its toolset.
Justin
I guess it isn't easy to adapt it to VS 15/17.
Last time that I've tried, it succeeded in 18 projects and failed in 5.
WXWidgets had a good "Migration" report after importing but had also
some problems building afterwards.
Someone was able to build with VS2015, if I don't err.
I would be happy to migrate to 2017 since NVDA does for some strange
reason refuse to read the editor content in VS2013.
Robert, you can use visual studio 2017, and still use the 2013 compiler, as
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/02/24/stuck-on-an-older-toolset-version-move-to-visual-studio-2015-without-upgrading-your-toolset/
For just desktop development, visual studio 2017 takes up about 5GB on
disk.
David.
Robert
Has anyone on the list got a build of Audacity compiled with visual
studio
2015 (or 2017) which they could make available for me to download?
It doesn't have to be up to date with the latest commits, and it
doesn't matter what version of wxWidgets it uses.
Background: There is currently a problem using the "creators" update
of windows 10, that Audacity can crash when using the Jaws screen
reader.
Window 10 is not officially listed as a target for visual studio
2013,
so I
wanted to check if this is the problem.
thanks,
David.
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