Spring and Visual Studio

In the Zero-K test session, I tried to track down a possible Spring bug regarding AI selection on the ingame menu screen (Etherpad http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/zktest-2013-11-15 )

Doing so was very frustrating as Spring hates Visual Studio.
On official Spring forums (Like http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=30787), you can see funny/sad advice quotes like:
"Try to grab the develop branch as it was in 2013 august 12, as that worked for me."

I therefore attempted to fix compiling the current develop branch.
It should be a significant improvement.
But before I try to propose the code fixes for inclusion in spring, would anyone be interested in attempting to build and verify if everything works as expected, not just on my machine?
Afaik none of the current Spring devs use Visual Studio so I can't get feedback there.

I wrote detailed instructions on the Spring Wiki:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Building_Spring_on_Windows_2_temp

Wait, you've managed to build Spring?

If you want to develop the engine, ditch Visual Studio, grab the latest QTCreator + OpenGL + MinGW build and profit ;-)

Also grab the latest build of MSYS. You'll want it.

x64: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-packages/Qt-Builds/x64-Qt-5.1.1-opengl%2Bqtcreator-2.8.1-%28gcc-4.8.1-seh-rev5%29.7z/download

x32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-packages/Qt-Builds/x32-Qt-5.1.1-opengl%2Bqtcreator-2.8.1-%28gcc-4.8.1-dwarf-rev5%29.7z/download

MSYS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-packages/msys%2B7za%2Bwget%2Bsvn%2Bgit%2Bmercurial%2Bcvs-rev13.7z/download

Don't make yourself addicted to propertiary stuff any more than required!

Ban VS :)

I personally don’t like VS (we have been working with it on C# in school).

I love working in KDevelop or QTCreator.