[Dune-devel] CMake with Visual Studion/Windows

[Christian Engwer]

> >> - Microsoft's C++ compiler struggles with some C++ constructs we
> >> use:
> > 
> > this is something I also heard from other people using windows for
> > scientific computing. The usual advice is using ICC which integrates
> > with VS.
> 
> Sure, but the licensing is there even worse than with Unix. There is no
> free license for personal or open source projects. And I don't know of
> any institute that has ICC licenses and Windows. All clusters with ICC
> installed I could get access to are Unices.

We had a participant at the DUNE course in spring, who works in a bio
group and is responsible for their software. They develop a C++ code
under Windows and he told us that they actually use ICC because the
builtin compiler is still not good enough.

> On the other hand, Microsoft is catching up astonishingly fast, cf. the
> already implemented and planned features for Visual Studio 14 [1]. At
> some point it would be even worth to file template meta-programming bugs.
> Let's see who'll be faster: Microsoft with there compiler, Intel with
> their licensing or Dune with Windows support ;-)
> 
> By the way, Microsoft announced support for Boost [2] and CMake [3] in
> Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. That could improve the support by
> Visual Studio.

sounds good.

Ciao
Christian