Updating to MSVC 2026

[Neil]

Microsoft recently released Visual Studio 2026 with an updated compiler. It seems to be very similar to recent Visual Studio 2022 releases.

There were no apparent problems with Scintilla, Lexilla, or SciTE so I will start to use this for most work including making releases.

I haven't found any cases where MSVC 2026 stops working with Windows versions, CPU families or similar that worked with preceding releases.

Windows 11 is now the only version that has Microsoft mainstream support and it is only 64-bit. 32-bit releases of Scintilla are rarely used now and are not tested by me so will likely decay as changes are made to code.

Neil

[Andrew Truckle]

I am also using vs2026 now and seems ok. But for now I have to support 32 bit because of support to another app that might need 32 bit odbc database drivers. 

[Matt Gilarde]

We also support 32-bit because our application allows users to load DLLs and in some cases only 32-bit versions of the DLLs are available. VS2026 can still build x86 targets and Windows 11 can still run 32-bit applications.