[cairo] Once again... VS.NET

Vladimir Vukicevic vladimirv at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 16:19:00 PDT 2005


On 9/5/05, Hans Breuer <hans at breuer.org> wrote:
> On 05.09.2005 10:20, Salevsky, Sascha wrote:
> > Another word on pixman. The mmx-path is a bit to tightly
> > coupled to gcc imho. For instance VS.NET don't
> > understand the __include__ keyword. Maybe a little
> > bit more define-magic is needed here. The
> > detectCPUFeatures() is also gcc inline assembly...
> >
> You are not supposed to (dont need to) build this file when
> building with an incompatible inline assembler. AFAIK there
> is much more 'wrong' in that file than just the __inline__
> keyword.

Yep, Stuart Parmenter started doing some work to get fbmmx building
with visual studio's MMX intrinsics.. there were some differences in
types that caused issues.  It's not a critical requirement, since the
C-only version works fine.

   - Vlad


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