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

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

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Johan 't Hart<johanthart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin schreef:
>
>> Having said that, a CMake-based system _in addition_ to what is
>> tried-and-tested to be able to support all those different kinds of
>> Microsoft Visual Studio (took me 3 attempts to write that without a
>> Freudian) would be welcome, _if_ you succeed in making it compile out of the
>> box on msysGit.
>
> That would require (I think) that CMake is build by the msysgit gcc tools
> available in msysgit, since CMake can't be build by VS right? Pau do you
> think that is possible?

CMake can certainly be built by VC++ but you need CMake to do that,
VC++-CMake cannot be bootstrapped.

Would it be OK to download a binary version of CMake instead of / in
addition to the source? (I'm not familiar with the 'release.sh' stuff
yet)

> It would be fun. Download the msysgit netinstaller, set it up, install it,
> and after that, CMake is bootstrapped, and the visual studio .vcproj files
> are generated and everyone (VS developers and msys developers) are ready to
> go!

That'd be right, if I have understood what the netinstaller does (I've
never used it yet).

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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