6.6.8.576310 - VS 2022

Release Notes

VS2022 Update

This viewer is built using updated build tools, moving from VS 2017 to VS 2022. There should be no visible changes to behavior.

Resolved Issues

• SL-18390 [OSX] The viewer cannot be opened by double click after installing
• SL-18389 [OSX] The 'media_plugin_cef' error appears in the viewer
• SL-18302 Confirm (and fix as needed) that the master Viewer branch, 32bit Windows build works as expected.
• SL-18289 Incorporate additional architecture flag in CMake generator string for VS 2022 compatibility
• SL-18223 Write a short Confluence describing how to update to VS 2022
• SL-18130 The crashes are not received in the bugsplat crash browser after crashing on the Second Life Test 6.6.4.222452145 viewer
• SL-18089 Create a locally built Viewer from canonical source using VS 2022
• SL-18064 Determine which Microsoft runtime DLLs we should ship with the Virewer
• SL-18063 Determine which (if any) compiler flags we should add (or remove)
• SL-18062 Rebuild all the third party libraries we use in the Viewer using VS 2022
• SL-18061 Build the Viewer in TeamCity using VS 2022
• SL-18060 Determine current Visual Studio costs and those for update to VS 2022
• SL-18022 Determine if Chromium/CEF can be built using VS 2022
• SL-18021 Generate a VS 2020 build of the Viewer using current third party libraries
• SL-17238 NickyD's cmake changes