Altera OpenCL SDK with Visual Studio 2015

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Hi, 

 Is there anyone tried to setup the development environment with VS2015 and successfully build the Host program?  The VS2010 is used in the Altera get started guide for the env setup. I have tried the setup wit VS2013. The only downside of VS2013 is PDB info is not available in Debug build, as the PDB files are for VS2010. But I just could not make it work in VS2015.  Thanks for help.

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you probably run into some incompatibly issue? to ensure what you trying to suspect is correct, maybe do a quick one by down grading to VS2010 and redo then.

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yep, the same setup works for VS2013, but failed on VS2015. 

 It seems the C/C++ runtime used by Altera (v15.0) is not compatible with VS2015. Just wondering, if anyone try out the v15.1 Altera SDK with VS2015, and make a successful compile.

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when you reinstall to VS2015, just to confirm is all the environment path is pointing to VS2015 one?

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yep, the cmd I am using is from the VS2015, i think it is not path issue, should be sth like the VS2015 is using a different version of the ms runtime/compile time libs

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sorry for not able to help on this, out of depth.

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still good to have your reply, please let me know if you make it work later. :)

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I got stuck as well with Visual Studio 2015.  

I do not know what to set for property Platform Toolset”. Training material suggest Window71.1SDK but I can not install it on my system. None of the available options work.

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I have had success compiling the vector_add test code with Visual Studio v14.0 (aka 2015)  

 1) change Project vector_add properties Additional Depenancies "OpenCL.lib;legacy_stdio_definitions.lib;%(Additio nalDependencies)"  2) change the main.cpp program, at top of file after includes FILE _iob[] = { *stdin, *stdout, *stderr };  extern "C" FILE * __cdecl __iob_func(void) { return _iob; }  extern "C" void __imp__set_output_format(void) {};  This may break other things, but the vector_add test works with these changes. (refs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31242820 , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30412951 )