[Botan-devel] Botan with VS .NET 2003

[Jack Lloyd]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:34:24PM -0700, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> Hi Jack,
> 
> sorry, I forgot to mention that. I'm using 1.4.12
> right now, but I could switch 1.5.10 if that works
> better with VS 2003.

Actually it looks like 1.5.10 has introduced some strange build issues
on VC that I'm going to have to check out - but 1.4.12 should be
working fine on VC 2000/2003/2005. In general any recent Visual Studio
(post-6) should work fine with any version of Botan, but it is not my
primary dev platform so occasionally problems sneak in.

> I ran the check program now and all tests passed!
> I'm confused...

Hmmm... in a few places the engine code relies on dynamic_cast to
function properly, and I think if dynamic_cast were to fail (seems a
little broken to me to that dynamic_cast will compile and fail at
runtime if RTTI is disabled) you might see the situation you described
WRT no algorithms being found. Did you do a clean rebuild after
enabling RTTI? That might explain why it decided to suddenly start
working.

-Jack