Okay, ghazel wanted to build tahoe on his machine, and he uses the Microsoft compiler exclusively, and it turns out that the Microsoft compiler doesn't support C99 (and that they have no plans to ever do so! Boo-hoo!), and so ghazel ported zfec from C99 to C89.
All of this suggests that we could use a buildslave that compiles things with the Microsoft compiler.
Oh, I just realized that I've been writing "Windows NT" in this ticket when I meant "Windows XP".
Zandr set up a Gutsy buildslave courtesy of allmydata.com.
So the current list of desired build slaves is:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP compiled with the Microsoft compiler instead of gcc
- Fedora (allmydata.com is not going to supply this one -- we need a volunteer from the community)