Feature request - support for VC++

[sashazxtt]

Hello!

Is support for building with Visual C++ planned?
I have attempted and initial result was too many compilation errors.

I've managed to compile runtime.c; not sure if all the changes I've made will perform as expected at run-time. Still, there are plenty of warnings remaining.

Issues encountered were difference between the built-in intrinsics. VC++ refused to compile -n when 'n' is an unsigned.

Other issues are things like zero-sized arrays. There probably are others, as I've not gone through the full compilation process.

As a side note, I tried compiling with C++ Builder using the modern toolchain (CLANG-based) and it was not very successful at all. I gave up pretty quickly.

[markos]

Hi @sashazxtt , thanks for your interest in Vectorscan! Unfortunately, Windows and in particular VC++ support is not planned in the near future. We are first looking into supporting more Linux/BSD platforms, like RiSC-V and others and improving the existing code base. It may be that some of the code improvements will make it easier for VC++. However there is no promise for that. Even if you fixed all the code problems though we might not include them unless they were trivial changes, because we have no Windows CI to test them on. Having said that, if you or your company are interested in funding a Windows port, we could discuss this.