Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MSVC Project file

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Reece Dunn<msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/17 Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Johannes
>> Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, we could have a script that verifies that the .vcproj files
>>> contain reference the appropriate files (which it would know about by
>>> being called from the Makefile and being passed the file names), maybe
>>> even be able to edit the .vcproj file if it is missing some.  Should not
>>> be too hard in Perl.
>>
>> You'll need to special-case for Visual C++ 2010, which is different
>> and incompatible with previous versions. Hence my suggestion for
>> CMake: appropriate project files would be generated for the tool the
>> user chooses, be it VC++ 2005, VC++2010, gcc, Borland C++ or anything
>> else.
>
> The problem is that you'd still need the Visual Studio projects (one
> each for 6, 7 (2002), 7.1 (2003), 8 (2005), 9 (2008) and 10 (2010) --
> yes, there'll need to be one for each version of Visual Studio) as
> people who use Visual Studio tend to primarily use the IDE. CMake
> (which Windows users will need to download & install from somewhere)
> will sit outside this -- unless you mean making the project files be
> the "Makefile project" type and simply use it to invoke CMake and host
> the source files to ease access to them from the IDE?

If a CMake build system is provided, you will not need a single Visual
Studio project, or the autotools build system, or anything else. Just
CMake and the CMake build system (which are a bunch of CMakeLists.txt
plain text files).

CMake takes the CMakeLists.txt file(s) as the input and generates
makefiles for gcc, vcproj files for Visual C++, makefiles for NMake,
Eclipse projects for Eclipse, XCode projects for XCode, etc.

> Also, not every posix system will have CMake installed (e.g. Linux
> From Scratch systems) and that's not including "exotic" systems like
> Solaris and the *BSDs.

CMake is available for many platforms (Linux x86-32 and x86-64, PPC,
Solaris Sparc, HP-UX, Irix, AIX PPC) as a binary from the CMake site (
http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html ) and as source for the
rest.

*BSD? It is available in the ports section (and maybe as a binary,
too) in FreeBSD(
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/cmake/ ), NetBSD and
OpenBSD.

Linux from scratch? If people are brave enough to build and use LFS,
they are brave enough to build CMake (CMake is autocontained and
bootstraps itself, it only depends on a C++ compiler to build itself).

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)