[Box Backup-dev] win32 compile problems

[Charles Lecklider]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Charles Lecklider wrote:
> 
>> http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/svn/box/chris/merge
> [...]
>> Am I looking at the wrong branch?
> 
> I haven't finished merging the general branch into trunk, and not all
> the changes are in the merge branch. I have never tried to compile that
> branch on Windows with any compiler, and I doubt that it would work.

OK, no probs - I was hoping it was something like that :-)

> Please try the general branch. If something doesn't work, I'll fix it
> there and then merge it back to trunk later.

warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to 'int',
possible loss of data
d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\collectinbufferstream.cpp	 line 164

(and 167 and 170)


warning C4267: 'return' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'unsigned int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\excludelist.h	line 51	


warning C4267: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\archive.h	line 70	


warning C4267: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\fdgetline.cpp	line 172	


warning C4267: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\iostreamgetline.cpp
line 155	


warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\memblockstream.cpp
line 182	


warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\memblockstream.cpp
line 185	


warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to 'int',
possible loss of data	d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\memblockstream.cpp
line 188	


warning C4267: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int',
possible loss of data
d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\readgatherstream.cpp	line 72	


warning C4244: 'initializing' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to
'int', possible loss of data
d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\readgatherstream.cpp	line 148	


warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from 'IOStream::pos_type' to
'size_t', possible loss of data
d:\dev\boxbackup\lib\common\streamablememblock.cpp	line 118	



And lots and lots more....

I have "detect 64-bit portability issues" enabled which isn't part of VC
Express, and I suspect that a lot of these are related to that.

However, since I intend to produce a 64-bit Windows version it's
probably a good idea to fix these :-)

-C