Hi guys,

A couple of months ago I proposed dropping support for Visual Studio 2012 and making VS2013 the minimum version for Visual Studio users. The primary motivation was to make life easier by opening up C++11 and other compiler improvements.

The idea was met with some resistance, and I held off a while and worked around limitations to continue supporting VS2012. But I'm once again coming up against limitations which are fixed in VS2013 (this time it's support for default parameters in templatized functions) which are proving frustrating.

I wish I could spend more time on PolyVox, but as time is limited I don't wont to use it fixing these kind of issues. Therefore I am now going to increase the required Visual Studio version from 2012 to 2013.

For users who really don't or can't use VS2012, the last version of PolyVox which works on VS2012 is '37757da'. This is also the version being used for the next upcoming Cubiquity release.

Note that this change doesn't affect users of GCC and Clang, even if they are being used on Windows (so a recent MinGW should still be fine). We don't commit to particular versions of those compilers but generally they have better support for modern C++ anyway.

Apologies to those who are affected by this, but it the way it has to be to maximize time spent on PolyVox and Cubiquity improvements.

Qt now have 2013 SDK, just we have to somwhow force Ogre to release one then we will all be fine (even if I'm still stuck with 0.2.1 and 2010)

Great to see commits to polyvox flowing again! Whatever changes need to be made to make progress move along are changes well made!

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Thanks guys! The situation with Qt/Ogre SDKs is indeed a pain but hopefully this gets easier in the (long-term) future. Microsoft have announced that they want to refactor their runtime so that it doesn't keep changing between releases (at least that is my interpretation):

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/10/the-great-crt-refactoring.aspx

David, Qt is NO LONGER a pain! Only Ogre is!

I searched on the forums of OGRE.
I found a compiled version (x64) of OGRE 1.9 and 1.10 on VS2013:
http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=79550&p=504669&hilit=2013#p504699