XTP and MSVC conformance mode

XTP 18.4.0 (and prior) does not compile having the MSVC conformance mode enabled (/permissive-, Visual Studio 15.7.3).

We would like our application to comply with the C++ standard, but XTP needs to do so as well.

Are there any plans to make XTP compatible?

Just in case nobody has a clue what I'm talking about:

I got curious so I had a go at it. You can download a patch from here:

This will make the headers conforming and you should be able to compile a consumer with /permissive-.

Most of it was missing this in

this->method()

in classes with a template parameter as base and similarly missing Base:: in

Base::static_member_variable

in the same. I had to move some definitions and I had to create one extra function to avoid having to pull PaintManager in some Common header which started endless cycles.

I also started fixing some of the .cpp files to make the library compile with /permissive- but it got tedious. It seems like 90% of the remaining stuff is that

(test ? typeA : typeB)

no longer compiles if the two types can be implicitely converted into more than one common type, the use of

or

as a variable name and some missing headers. XTPToolTipContext.cpp pulls mshtml.h and thus it needs the /Zc:strictStrings- compiler option.

I would like to leave this to the CodeJock people and sincerely hope that they will incorporate this upstream so I will not have to redo it.

Try again.

18.6. now compiles with /permissive-. To apply go to the root folder and do

For 18.5. the patch only makes the headers conforming and it is untested. The diff is done from "Sources", so you will have to go to root/Sources and do

Also, you will have to add a line

struct IUnknown;

to stdafx.h before it pulls the windows headers.