[help]: What is the difference between msvc 2015 , 2017, 2019, 2022?

[SwartzBushnell]

I'm getting ready to use bit7z and I need it to work correctly on windows 7 and all systems after that, so I'm checking with you to make sure of the differences so I can choose the right version.

I don't see a description in readme.md, did I miss it?

Thank you and have a nice day.

[rikyoz]

Hi!
As far as bit7z is concerned, there is no difference between the different versions of MSVC.
You can choose any version of MSVC you need for your project, bit7z's API is always the same and the behavior of the library should always be the same.

I say "should" because, of course, there could be some bugs in the compiler or in the standard library that make bit7z behave slightly differently between each version of MSVC.
However, I am not aware of any such bugs, with the exception of this one in the latest versions of MSVC 2022, for which BitException always returns "unknown error" at the end of the error message (if the system locale is not en-US) instead of the specific error-related message.
Hopefully, they'll fix that, but I'm also considering implementing some workaround.
Other versions of MSVC should not have this bug.