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

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>]

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?

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.

- Reece