Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin said the following on 18.08.2009 16:11:
> > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> > > > So, instead of rely on these vcproj files which *will* go stale, 
> > > > we can simply use the same Makefile system which everyone else is 
> > > > using. :) After all, we're just compiling with a different 
> > > > compiler. The end result will still rely on the *msysGit 
> > > > environment* to function, so we already require it. Thus, GNU Make 
> > > > is present, and we can use it.
> > > 
> > > We can also use sed or perl to generate/modify the .vcproj files, or 
> > > run CMake (once Pau got it to build), and package the stuff using 
> > > zip (once I got that to build).
> > 
> > Really? That would be some script being able to parse the Makefile, 
> > and create something reasonable as a vcproj script :) Keeping all the 
> > options in sync, conditional files/libs, all the various end 
> > executables (a separate .vcproj for each of them, and a solution file 
> > (.sln)to tie them all together into a .. "solution", a complete 
> > product blah blah blah) etc.
> 
> I think it wouldn't be impossible to split the Makefile into an 
> easy-to-parse part and an irrelevant-to-vcproj part.

What?  That is pretty fragile.

It would be _much_ better to just add another Makefile target that outputs 
the files needed for the targets.

We do not need to keep the Makefile as-is!  If the change is not 
intrusive, I am sure our friendly maintainer will not see a problem 
either.

No need for fragile parsing at all.

Ciao,
Dscho