[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 156825] New: WebKit doesn't compile with Visual Studio 2015

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156825

            Bug ID: 156825
           Summary: WebKit doesn't compile with Visual Studio 2015
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows 10
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: JavaScriptCore
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: ewmailing at gmail.com

This is an FYI bug. I gave a quick pass to try to build JavaScriptCore (I don't need all of WebKit, but I think all of WebKit has the same problem) with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. It doesn't compile.

So the biggest "problem" I see is that Microsoft finally fixed their broken compiler to support a bunch of C99 things they have dragged their feet on for a decade. So things like snprintf I think finally exist. But the problem is that there are a lot of workarounds to redefine this missing functions for Visual Studio which result in duplicate definitions now and break the compile.

I think the solution is to start looking for the #if _MSC_VER cases and explicitly compare for < 1900 when it looks like it is a C/C++ language/standard-library workaround for Visual Studio.

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