This commit switches Windows builds from Visual Studio 2013
to Visual Studio 2015 Update 1.
Previously, Visual Studio was installed on the builders as part
of the base system image. Starting with this commit, we obtain
Visual Studio from a pre-generated, self-contained archive
containing the executables, Windows SDK, and other support
files. This means that new Windows toolchains can be installed
without having to modify configuration of machines in automation!
The mozconfigs for Visual Studio 2015 are a bit different from
existing mozconfigs.
Because it appears to be completely redundant and not necessary,
the LIBPATH variable has been dropped.
The order of paths in PATH, LIB, and INCLUDE has changed. The new
order more accurately reflects what would be defined by
vcvarsall.bat.
As part of switching to Visual Studio 2015, the Universal CRT is
now required. So, the 2015 mozconfigs export WIN_UCRT_REDIST_DIR
to define the location to those files.
The switch to Visual Studio 2015 also involves the switch from
the Windows 8.1 SDK to the Windows 10 SDK. However, we still
target an old version of Windows, so this hopefully shouldn't
have any significant fallout.
It's worth noting that switching to Visual Studio 2015 makes
builds - especially PGO builds - significantly faster. Our
PGO build times in automation are ~1 hour faster. Our regular
builds appear to be a few minutes faster.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Pa5GW8V87Q
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Currently it will fail with errors such as:
Insufficient debug information (private symbols are needed) or code from
unknown language. The following modules didn't have full symbols:
nsBrowserApp.obj
AppData.obj (xpcomglue_staticruntime.lib)
FileUtils.obj (xpcomglue_staticruntime.lib)
nsCRTGlue.obj (xpcomglue_staticruntime.lib)
nsXPCOMGlue.obj (xpcomglue_staticruntime.lib)
We need to turn this back on when clang-cl grows more debug
info support.
There are, sadly, many combinations of linkage in use throughout the tree.
The main differentiator, though, is between program/libraries related to
Gecko or not. Kind of. Some need mozglue, some don't. Some need dependent
linkage, some standalone.
Anyways, these new templates remove the need to manually define the
right dependencies against xpcomglue, nspr, mozalloc and mozglue
in most cases.
Places that build programs and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_PROGRAM_LDFLAGS
or that build libraries and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_LDFLAGS can now
just not use those Gecko-specific templates.
While bug 903369 added some kind of wrapping, msys mangling on Windows made
it hard to make the python wrapper invoke subconfigures itself. This change
overcomes this, allowing to run subconfigures entirely independently of
the main configure if necessary, or to do more fancy checks without having
to resort to m4 and shell.
