Support compilation on Windows using MS Visual Studio compiler ("nmake")

[fancycode]

The pull requests supports compiling the library and the "qrtest" sample on Windows using the MS compiler.

[dlbeer]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:18:58AM -0800, Joachim Bauch wrote:

• Support compilation on Windows using MS Visual Studio compiler ("nmake").
• Remove local debug path.

Hi Joachim,

I think it would be good to add VC++ compatibility, but if you add
old-style initializers for data tables in the source, then the new-style
(designated initializers) are completely redundant -- if I modified the
latter, I'd have to modify the former anyway.

So, if I was going to do this, I'd remove the designated initializers
completely. However, I think that's a pretty big sacrifice in
maintainability to make for the sake of a single compiler which doesn't
support C99 and apparently never will.

MinGW is available as a compiler for Windows, and being based on GCC, it
does support C99. Quirc has quite a small API -- would it be possible
instead to add rules (and possibly some export-related definitions) to
build a library using MinGW that could be linked against by a VC++
project?

This would be a much smaller change and wouldn't require me to give up
the use of C99 features.

Regards,
Daniel

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[sagartesla]

I compiled this project on my VS 2010 with some modifications. But, now facing issue like How to run it for simple image_load and decode example? I am not able to load qr image.

[kaworu]

Closing as it is too old to merge as-is. If there is interest for VS support please create a new PR.