All Windows APIs have been natively UTF-16 since Windows 2000 and the
non-Unicode variants are just wrappers around them. Only Windows 9x
doesn't understand Unicode without the UnicoWS DLL. As later Visual
Studio versions cannot target Windows 9x anyway, using the ANSI API
doesn't really have any benefit there.
This avoids issues like KNOWN_BUGS 6.5.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2120
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3720
After squashing most of our compiler warnings, up'ed the default
warning level from 3 to 4 in order to increase the likelyhood of
catching future warnings.
As these files don't need to contain references to the source files,
although typically do, added basic files which only include three
filters and don't require the project file generator to be modified.
These files allow the source code to be viewed in the Solution Explorer
in versions of Visual Studio from 2010 onwards in the same manner as
previous versions did rather than one large view of files.
This wasn't possible with the old curlsrc project filenames, but like
commit 2a615a2b64 and 11397eb6dd for libcurl use the built in Visual
Studio macros for the output filenames.
Removed the DataExecutionPrevention directive from the project files for
Visual Studio 2008 and above. The XML value in the VC9 project files was
set to "0" (Default) whilst the VC10+ project files contained an empty
XML element.
Visual Studio 2008 introduced support for the address space layout
randomization (ASLR) feature of Windows Vista. However, upgrading the
VC8 project files to VC9 and above disabled this feature.
Removed the RandomizedBaseAddress directive to enabled the default
setting (/DYNAMICBASE). Note: This doesn't appear to have any negative
impact when compiled and ran on Windows XP.
Visual Studio 2005 and above defaults to disabling the startup banner
for the Compiler, Linker and MIDL tools (with /NOLOGO). As such there
is no need to explicitly set the SuppressStartupBanner directive, as
this is a leftover from the VC7 and VC7.1 projects being upgraded to
VC8 and above.
Defined the DEBUGBUILD pre-processor variable to allow extra logging,
which is particularly useful in debug builds, as we use this and Visual
Studio typically uses _DEBUG.
We could define DEBUBBUILD, in curl_setup.h, when _MSC_VER and _DEBUG is
defined but that would also affect the makefile based builds which we
probably don't want to do.
The curl tool project files for VC8 to VC12 would set this setting to
$(IntDir) which is the Visual Studio default value. To avoid confusion
when viewing settings from within Visual Studio and for consistency
with the libcurl project files removed this setting.
Conflicts:
projects/Windows/VC10/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC11/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC12/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC8/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC9/src/curlsrc.tmpl
The curl tool project files for VC7 to VC12 would set this settings to
$(IntDir)$(TargetName).pch which is the Visual Studio default value. To
avoid confusion when viewing settings from within Visual Studio and for
consistency with the libcurl project files removed this setting.
Conflicts:
projects/Windows/VC10/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC11/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC12/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC8/src/curlsrc.tmpl
projects/Windows/VC9/src/curlsrc.tmpl
The curl tool project files for VC7 to VC12 would set these settings to
$(IntDir) which is the Visual Studio default value. To avoid confusion
when viewing settings from within Visual Studio and for consistency
with the libcurl project files removed these two settings.
The curl tool project files for VC7 to VC12 would override the default
setting with the output filename being the same as the linker PDB file.
As such the compiler file would be overwritten with the linker file
for all debug builds.
To avoid this overwrite and for consistency with the libcurl project
files, removed the setting to force the default filename to be used.
Carrying on from commit 11025613b9 added VC11 project files which are
capable of supporting side-by-side compilation, 32-bit and 64-bit
builds as well as support for some of the third-party libraries curl
uses.
